La torre herida por el rayo

by Fernando Arrabal

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"The final, definitive match in the competition for the World Chess Championship is about to begin. Contenders Elias Tarsis and Marc Amary take their places at the board. The judges' implacable clock begins to tick, and a hush falls over the capacity crowd in Paris's Beaubourg Center Theater. But before the players can make their first moves, they are distracted by news of the kidnapping of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat. Tarsis--an artist and an intuitive genius--is convinced that his show more despised opponent--a world-renowned physicist--is behind the kidnapping. So begins the game, and so begins this darkly comic, metaphysical mystery novel ..."--Jckt. show less

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Elías Tarsis y Marc Amary son dos genios enfrentados. Ante ellos, el tablero sobre el que se decidirá el campeonato del mundo de ajedrez. A sus espaldas, dos complejas historias personales marcadas por el amor, las fobias, las intrigas políticas y la casualidad. Ganadora del premio Nadal de novela y del Nabokov internacional de novela, «La torre herida por el rayo» recorre, al ritmo de las jugadas que se suceden sobre la mesa, las trayectorias de estos dos antagonistas, conduciendo al lector por entre los vericuetos del singular y siempre sorprendente mundo nacido de la pluma de Fernando Arrabal.
At best, not terrible, but it's hard to love a book that opens with a translator's note concerning the size of the author's genitalia. A bit of a mess, but had the virtue of introducing me, when I first read it, to Capek's War with the Newts.
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Elías Tarsis y Marc Amary son dos genios enfrentados. Ante ellos, el tablero sobre el que se decidirá el campeonato del mundo de ajedrez. A sus espaldas, dos complejas historias personales marcadas por el amor, las fobias, las intrigas políticas y la casualidad. Ganadora del premio Nadal de novela y del Nabokov internacional de novela, «La torre herida por el rayo» recorre, al ritmo de las jugadas que se suceden sobre la mesa, las trayectorias de estos dos antagonistas, conduciendo al lector por entre los vericuetos del singular y siempre sorprendente mundo nacido de la pluma de Fernando Arrabal.

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Böhringer, Willy (Translator)
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Original title
La torre herida por el rayo
Original publication date
1983

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
863.64Literature & rhetoricSpanish LiteratureSpanish fiction20th Century1945-2000
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PQ6601 .R58 .T613Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesSpanish literatureIndividual authors, 1868-1960
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