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Stephenson, N: Anathem de Neal Stephenson

Stephenson, N: Anathem

Autor Neal Stephenson
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2009

Structura narativă a acestui roman monumental ne poartă printr-o lume construită cu o migală arhitecturală, unde cronologia este dictată de ritmul ritualic al vieții mănăstirești. Apreciem modul în care Neal Stephenson nu se limitează la a scrie o simplă aventură spațială, ci creează un univers întreg, Arbre, unde „mathii” — echivalentul cercetătorilor noștri — trăiesc în izolare pentru a proteja cunoașterea de influențele politice și sociale exterioare. Perspectiva este una internă, cea a lui Erasmas, un tânăr decenar care ne ghidează prin coridoarele acestei societăți intelectuale până când o amenințare venită din ceruri forțează deschiderea porților.

Ne-a atras atenția sistemul unic de organizare socială și lingvistică. Stephenson inventează un vocabular propriu pentru a descrie tehnologia și filosofia acestui univers, transformând lectura într-un proces de decriptare fascinant. Sistemul magic este aici, de fapt, unul al logicii pure și al matematicii avansate, unde puterea minții umane de a înțelege structura realității devine singura armă împotriva dezastrului. Cititorul care a apreciat viziunea asupra viitorului și a spațiului cibernetic din Snow Crash va găsi aici aceeași densitate de idei originale — dar într-un context diferit, mult mai sobru și orientat către metafizică. Dacă în Seveneves accentul cădea pe supraviețuirea tehnologică imediată, în Anathem miza este păstrarea integrității intelectuale a speciei pe parcursul mileniilor. Este un roman de idei care reușește să fie, în același timp, o aventură epică despre contactul cu necunoscutul.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780061474101
ISBN-10: 006147410X
Pagini: 1008
Dimensiuni: 111 x 171 x 55 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Harper Collins Publ. USA
Locul publicării:New York, NY

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Recomandăm Anathem celor care caută o experiență de lectură intelectuală intensă. Este o carte care nu doar povestește, ci construiește o cosmologie întreagă. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nouă asupra relației dintre știință, religie și societate, totul ambalat într-un format de peste 1000 de pagini care recompensează răbdarea cu o viziune speculativă rară în literatura contemporană. Este ideală pentru fanii proiectelor ambițioase de tip „world-building”.

Despre autor

Neal Stephenson este unul dintre cei mai influenți scriitori contemporani de literatură de anticipație și ficțiune istorică, cunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a sintetiza concepte complexe din informatică, criptografie și filosofie în narațiuni captivante. Autor al bestsellerurilor „Snow Crash” și „Cryptonomicon”, Stephenson a redefinit genul science-fiction prin integrarea riguroasă a datelor științifice. Cariera sa este marcată de premii prestigioase, precum Locus și Hugo, fiind considerat un vizionar care explorează impactul tehnologiei asupra evoluției umane și structurilor sociale globale.

Descriere scurtă

A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians live in seclusion behind ancient monastery walls until they are called back into the world to deal with a crisis of astronomical proportions.
 
Anathem won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the reviews for have been dazzling: “Brilliant” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel), “Daring” (Boston Globe), “Immensely entertaining” (New York Times Book Review), “A tour de force” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), while Time magazine proclaims, “The great novel of ideas…has morphed into science fiction, and Neal Stephenson is its foremost practitioner.”

Recenzii

“Reading Anathem is a humbling experience.” — Washington Post on ANATHEM
“A sprawling disquisition…[a] logophilic treat for those who like their alternate worlds big, parodic and ironic.” — Kirkus Reviews on ANATHEM
“Stephenson’s expansive storytelling echoes Walter Miller’s classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, the space operas of Larry Niven and the cultural meditations of Douglas Hofstadter – a heady mix of antecedents that makes for long stretches of dazzling entertainment.” — Publishers Weekly on ANATHEM
“A magnificent achievement. ” — Booklist (starred review) on ANATHEM
“Clever and intricate...truly ingenious...it’s brilliance is undeniable.” — Locus, Gary K. Wolfe on ANATHEM
“A masterpiece...mind-bogglingly ambitious...readers will delight in puzzling out the historical antecedents in philosophy, science, mathematics, and art that Stephenson riffs on with his customary quicklsilver genius...it’s one of the most thought-provoking novels I’ve ever read, and also one of the most engaging.” — Locus, Paul Witcover, on ANATHEM
“The Seattle writer is kind of a cross between William Gibson and Richard Powers, hard-wired to tell stories, explore technology and riff on anything that catches his fancy.” — The Oregonian (Portland) on ANATHEM
“[O]ne of Stephenson’s best novels…a captivating blend of culture clash, deductive reasoning and pure action.” — Columbus Dispatch on ANATHEM
“What ever happened to the great novel of ideas? It has morphed into science fiction, and Stephenson is its foremost practitioner. A-” — Time magazine on ANATHEM
“[R]iveting idea porn.” — Details on ANATHEM
“The cult legend’s newest book, Anathem, [is] destined to be an instant sci-fi classic.” — Popular Mechanics on ANATHEM
“He mashes up genres with the flair of Thomas Pynchon and the intellect of William Gibson.” — Winnipeg Free Press on ANATHEM
“Blending quantum physics, phenomenological philosophy and various other fun hobbies...Stephenson’s enthusiasm to share his theories and explanations is infectious...think “The Name of the Rose” crossed with “Dune”...genuinely fascinating brain food.” — The Oregonian (Portland) on ANATHEM
“Stephenson writes in twists and turns, double-backs and cul-de-sacs, winding tunnels and fast-moving tracks. It’s a Rube Goldberg sort of book: intricate, sometimes difficult to follow but always fascinating to read.” — Grand Rapids Press on ANATHEM
“Anathem duly marries extensive dialogues on quantum mechanics and the nature of consciousness to literal cliffhangers, hi-tech warfare and derring-do.” — Leicester Mercury on ANATHEM
“Anathem is a challenge: Make yourself one of the avout. Make yourself a scholar, and try to understand the world a little differently.” — Eugene Weekly on ANATHEM
“Stephenson displays his ingenuity when it comes to mixing science, sociology and satire with swashbuckling adventure. Anathem marries extensive scientific and philosophical dialogues to cliffhangers, hi-tech warfare and derring-do.” — Sunday Sun (UK) on ANATHEM
“It’s almost impossible to not be impressed by Anathem; there’s simply too much erudition, wit, craft and risk-taking.” — San Francisco Chronicle on ANATHEM
“In Anathem, Stephenson creates a religion for skeptics and nerds.” — Austin American-Statesman on ANATHEM
“Anathem is a brilliant, playful tour of the terrain where logic, mathematics, philosophy and quantum physics intersect, a novel of ideas par excellence, melding wordplay and mathematical theory with a gripping, human adventure.” — London Times on ANATHEM
“Anyone who has read Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle will be familiar with his ingenuity when it comes to mixing science, sociology and satire with swashbuckling adventure, and ANATHEM duly marries extensive dialogues on quantum mechanics and the nature of consciousness to literal cliffhangers, high-tech warfare and general derring-do.” — The Examiner (Ireland) on ANATHEM
“As with Stephenson’s previous work, plot and character are wrought to the highest standards of literary fiction but they’re scarcely as fascinating as the worlds he conjures up. If there’s anything more readable than ANATHEM it should probably be banned.” — Word (UK) on ANATHEM
“Learned, witty, weirdly torqued, emotionally complex, politically astute, and often darkly comic…ANATHEM is an audacious work by a highly intelligent imagination, a delightfully learned text.” — Edmonton Journal (Alberta) on ANATHEM
“A daring feat of speculative fiction…ANATHEM offers the reader a luscious arrangement of words, jokes, and speculations.” — Boston Globe
“This is a book about science and philosophy which demands the full concentration of the reader -a worthwhile, smart, exciting read.” — Time Out London
“A tour-de-force of world building and high-concept speculation, wrapped around a page-turning plot.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch on ANATHEM
“[R]avishingly brilliant, outrageously ambitious…ANATHEM is thought-provoking fun, at turns a post-graduate seminar of philosophy and physics, and a rousing yarn with characters you care about.” — Orlando Sentinel on ANATHEM
“Suddenly, novels of ideas are cool again.” — io9 on ANATHEM
“The world Stephenson builds is richly visual, its complicated social politics are convincingly detailed, and its cool and conflicted heroes struggle with thrilling intellectual puzzles while they are tested in epic physical adventures.” — Slate, Best of 2008 List, on ANATHEM
[R]avishingly brilliant, outrageously ambitious…Stephenson embarks on a mission of world-building, and he is thoroughly successful at it.” — South Florida Sun Sentinel on ANATHEM

Notă biografică

Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Descriere

For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change—and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond. Anathem is the latest miraculous invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle—a work of astonishing scope, intelligence, and imagination.