In Search of Klingsor: The International Bestselling Novel

In his international bestseller In Search of Klingsor, Jorge Volpi takes us from the Institute of Advanced Study to the heart of Hitler's Germany, where the line between truth and lies is all but dissolved.Mysterious, seductive, and immediately engrossing, this startlingly accomplished thriller explores the nexus between science and human nature and how they shaped the world in the aftermath of World War II. In 1940, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is invited to join the prestigious institute at Princeton, the world's foremost physics research facility. But a series of personal indiscretions forces him to accept a different, more sinister, assignment: uncover "Klingsor," Hitler's top adviser on the scientific work in the Third Reich, including the race to create the first atomic bomb. Bacon's efforts to expose the truth lead him to Gustav Links, a survivor of the attempted coup against Hitler. With Link's help, he continues researching postwar Germany -- in an era when a secret was really a secret and a lie wasn't necessarily a sin -- and falls into a complicated relationship with an alluring woman. His search for Klingsor, an ominous and seemingly omnicient adversary, is part mystery, part psychological puzzle, part witty intellectual game. In Search of Klingsor places real people in speculative historical fiction, combining the ingenuity of a scientific investigation with the suspense of a great espionage novel.

Literature & Fiction

JORGE VOLPI

Kristina Cordero

Contemporary

Scribner

"He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice." So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporáneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement. The poetic voice of Cuesta's verses can be heard throughout, offering insights into the creative and destructive forces and impulses in his work that eventually led to a mental ward—and a shocking suicide at thirty-eight. The fictional "Jorge," as narrator, embarks on an obsessive quest to understand the life of the long-dead poet, with the distance between subject and researcher blurring as he finds himself struggling to understand his own life. It is a brave search for anyone willing to gaze into the mirror of mortality "in spite of the dark silence."

In Spite of the Dark Silence

United States

Swan Isle Press

Cuando se encuentran en Nueva York en 1925, Henry Murray es un ambicioso médico de Harvard casado con una rica heredera de Boston; y Christiana Morgan, una tormentosa estudiante de arte, esposa de un veterano de guerra.  Atraídos por una fuerza que los sobrepasa, los dos viajan a Suiza para ser analizados por Jung, quien sumerge a Christiana en profundos estados de trance. Las visiones de la joven, fielmente dibujadas en sus cuadernos, se convertirán en el punto de partida de un experimento en busca del amor absoluto que se prolongará durante los siguientes cuarenta y dos años.  La tejedora de sombras es el retrato de una mujer que se empeñó en confrontar el universo masculino de su época, y el inquietante recuento de una obsesión llevada hasta el límite.  Description in English: When they meet in New York in 1925, Henry Murray is an ambitious physician from Harvard who is married to a rich woman from Boston, and Christiana Morgan is an upsetting art student married to a war veteran. Attracted to each other by a force they cannot explain, they both travel to Switzerland to meet with Carl Jung; Christiana is then submitted to intense sessions of hypnosis. The woman's visions are soon part of an experiment that pursues a deep love affair that would last for forty-two years.

La tejedora de sombras (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Planeta-ABG

'Jorge Volpi will be one of the stars of Spanish literature of this century.' Carlos Fuentes
'In Search of Klingsor is about Nazi nuclear scientists in World War II - imagine the mood and intellect of Borges somehow grown into a beautiful, dark, lively suspenseful novel - which is becoming an international hit.' Francisco Goldman
'Broad in scope and supremely ambitious, this novel by Mexican writer Volpi succeeds at several levels. Volpi offers a poignant, powerful reminder of the potential and the peril involved when we harness the forces of nature.' Publishers Weekly (Starred review)

In Search of Klingsor

Fourth Estate

Already an international bestseller, `In Search of Klingsor' traces an American physicist's thrilling search to unmask Hitler's chief science advisor, the man whose work on the German atomic bomb threatened Allied security.In 1946, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is pursuing research under the guidance of Albert Einstein, Kurt Goedel and other great minds of modern science. But because of a series of personal indiscretions he is forced to accept an altogether different, more sinister, assignment: uncover `Klingsor', Hitler's foremost advisor on the atomic bomb. But who is Klingsor and where might he be found?Bacon's efforts to expose the truth take him to Germany and to Gustav Links, a survivor of the failed attempt to kill Hitler in 1944. With Links at his side, Bacon is able to reconstruct a map of European maths and physics and embark on a journey that will lead him to some of the greatest scientific thinkers of the time, including Heisenberg, Schroedinger and Boehr, all of them suspects. As the search for his seemingly omniscient adversary intensifies, Bacon is drawn deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies of post-war Europe and into a complicated relationship with a mysterious and alluring woman whose motives are unclear.Part mystery, part psychological puzzle, part spy story, `In Search of Klingsor' is already an international bestseller. It has been compared with Umberto Eco's `The Name of the Rose' in its ability to fuse its many elements - science, metaphysics, mathematics, philosophy - into a single compelling narrative and will delight anyone with an enquiring mind.

Harpercollins MD

Der Würgeengel.

Zeit der Asche

Stuttgart, Klett Cotta, 2009

El insomnio de Bolívar (Spanish Edition)

Debolsillo]

Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa PLANETA-CASAMERICA 2012. Cuando se encuentran en Nueva York en 1925, Henry Murray es un ambicioso medico de Harvard casado con una rica heredera de Boston; y Christiana Morgan, una tormentosa estudiante de arte, esposa de un veterano de guerra.  Atraidos por una fuerza que los sobrepasa, los dos viajan a Suiza para ser analizados por Jung, quien sumerge a Christiana en profundos estados de trance. Las visiones de la joven, fielmente dibujadas en sus cuadernos, se convertiran en el punto de partida de un experimento en busca del amor absoluto que se prolongara durante los siguientes cuarenta y dos anos. La tejedora de sombras es el retrato de una mujer que se empeno en confrontar el universo masculino de su epoca, y el inquietante recuento de una obsesion llevada hasta el limite.

La tejedora de sombras

Booket

En un contexto histórico fascinante, Jorge Volpi concibe y ejecuta temas de suma trascendencia como son la relación entre la ciencia y el mal y la búsqueda de la verdadEl joven teniente Francis P. Bacon recibe la orden de capturar al científico que controló las investigaciones atómicas del Tercer Reich. Como Mefistófeles de Hitler, Klingsor, su nombre clave, supervisaba la organización secreta de físicos y místicos de las SS dedicada a resolver la construcción de la bomba atómica. Mientras persigue las huellas de Klingsor, y con ellas el rastro de complicidad de la élite alemana en los protocolos del horror, el teniente Bacon descubre a su vez los escurridizos dilemas del amor y el sexo, los disfraces de la personalidad, la infinita sutileza de la mentira, cayendo de bruces en la desgarradora encrucijada de la incertidumbre moral que preside nuestra época.De lectura a la vez turbulenta y cautivadora, enteramente alejada de los patrones usuales de la narrativa hispánica, En busca de Klingsor es un asombroso examen del dilema faustiano que en nuestro siglo, ha encarado a muchos con la atracción del horror.

En busca de Klingsor (Spanish Edition)

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In Search of Klingsor: The International Bestselling Novel

In Spite of the Dark Silence

La tejedora de sombras (Spanish Edition)

In Search of Klingsor

In Search of Klingsor

Der Würgeengel.

Zeit der Asche

El insomnio de Bolívar (Spanish Edition)

La tejedora de sombras

En busca de Klingsor (Spanish Edition)