La ecuación Dante
Jane Jensen
Publicado: 2004 | 566 páginas
Novela Ciencia ficción Intriga

La pericia del rabino Aharon Handalman con el código de la Tora (al volver a disponer las palabras y las letras de la Biblia) ha descubierto el nombre de un hombre. ¿Quién es Yosef Kobinski y por qué escondió Dios su nombre en su texto sagrado? Para encontrar las respuestas, Aharon empieza una investigación y descubre que Kobinski, un rabino polaco, no solo era un místico sino también un físico brillante que escribió lo que quizá haya sido la obra perdida más importante de la historia de la humanidad. Ahora, un grupo de amigos siguen las huellas de Kobinski hasta un claro de los bosques cercanos a Auschwitz. Y en ese claro se enfrentan cara a cara con lo inexplicable.

2.5 ( )

When I started reading this book I was enthralled. Since I absolutely love fiction that involves hidden codes, sought-after manuscripts that hold keys from the past that affect the future, conspiracies, and especially all of that in a religious setting, I figured I had hit the mother lode. And the book kept up its fascination for me through the entire first part, but after that I was thinking...this is so disappointing! It was all I could do to remain focused because it seemed to me that the book lost steam at that point. I can't say why without giving away details that would spoil it for others, so I guess you're going to have to take my word for it. Overall, it was a pretty okay read; I think she could have been a lot more forceful in the middle & end parts of the book like she was at the beginning.

brief plot review.

There are five main characters in this story. Denton Wyle is a spoiled rich kid man who works for a tabloid-type magazine which investigates everything from the Bermuda Triangle to aliens. His main focus is mysterious disappearances, because much like Fox Mulder of X-Files fame, he was right there when his sister (I think) disappeared mysteriously. The next character is Dr. Jill Talcott from the University of Washington, who has been working on a project using wave technology and whose main goal in life is making something of herself to erase the negative effects of her childhood. Jill's graduate student assistant is Nate Andros, who is also a philosophy student and who is in love with Jill. Next is Rabbi Aharon Handelman, who teaches Torah at a school in Jerusalem. Handelman also studies Torah Code arrays in which he has found the name of a rabbi Yobinski who was an inmate at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Not only has he found Yobinski's name (and he is a lesser Rabbi compared with many other famous rabbis) over 300 times, but he has found several words linked to Yobinski's in the array: weapon, weapon loosens demons, weapon looses angels, etc etc, along with the sequence of letters TLCTT. He doesn't quite understand the TLCTT sequence,though, until he passes by a television store where TVs are on and CNN is talking about a basement blowing up at the UW, the site of where Dr. Jill Talcott was doing some experimentation. The final character comprising the main core is Calder Ferris, who is nothing but a lean, mean, fighting machine. He has no use for sentimentality; he is on a mission with the Department of Defense and his mission is his life. As we meet Farris, his mission is to gather intelligence on scientific research for the DoD which might lead to the development of weapons technologies.

But truly, the main focus of Jensen's novel is the Rabbi Yosef Yobinski, physicist & well-known expert in Kabbalah. Yobinski, it seems, had persuaded other inmates to come with him one night to try to escape to a spot just a few hundred yards behind the camp. The attempt failed, all who went with him were captured, but Yobinski, according to one witness left behind, disappeared in a cloud of fire and was never seen again. It is the work of this man entitled The Book of Torment, left behind and in the hands of several different people, which ultimately will lead the five main characters to come together, each pursuing Yobinski's work either in Kabbalah or physics for his or her own personal motivations. Eventually all converge at the spot behind Auschwitz and discover that the forces behind Yobinski's disappearance are still at work.

Beyond this I won't say a thing, because it will totally wreck it for the reader. However, I will say that in getting the reader to this point, the author has done a great job in building character development, drawing a great mystery together & adding suspense. It is after this point (where they converge at Auschwitz), imho, that the suspense and the excitement just go limp.

Try it for yourself -- it was definitely fun to read & a great few hours of entertainment. ( )

This was such a satisfying book on so many levels (although the science is a bit thin (I asked my dad about it. He is an Electrical Engineer and the one who gave me this book. He sent me the following URL regarding the new String theory (http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/qg_ss.html) ) the story did not suffer from it and swept me right along. Definitely a good read, and I have reccomended it to some of my Pagan friends that are into Kabala. ( )