Absolute

Book Title: Absolute
ISBN: 9781644211601
By Author(s):GUEBEL DANIEL
By Publisher:RANDOM HOUSE US
Format:PB

Winner….
Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021
Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018
Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017
Best Novel Award by La Nacin 2016

A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness,and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir NabokovorOlga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handledwith a light touch.

The Absoluteis a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen.Beginningin the mid-18th century in Russia,acrossEurope and endingin late 20th-century Argentina, the characters lives play outin different branches of art, politics and science in such radical waysthat they transform the world and its reality. Thenarrators ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to theSpiritual Exercisesof Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society;and down through the generations to thenarrator,whose creation takes himback in time and spacetothe moment of the Big Bang.

The Absoluteis a monumental work about the creation of art and about family,about spiritual traditions and aboutthrowing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words.

This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece.Its the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is. La Nacin