Angleška književnost Reinkarnacija Fantastika Romani.
L'atlante delle nuvole
Cloud Atlas consists of six interlinking stories, told from the viewpoint of six different individuals at different points in time. The first story consists of the letters of Adam Ewing, and his fateful trip on a ship in the Pacific in the mid 1850's. From there we go to the second story, which takes place in the 1930's and is told from the viewpoint of Robert Frobisher, a talented disinherited muscial composer who visits an infirm maestro and his family in an attempt to get work and advantage. His story is told through his letters to a scientist friend/lover named Rufus Sixsmith. The next story takes place in the 1970's, and has to do with reporter Luisa Rey, and her exposure of corporate malfeasance that could result in disaster. Sixsmith is a scientist there, and plays an important part of the story. Next, is the story of Timothy Cavendish, in present day England, and the tale of his (mis) adventures as a book publisher. The second to last story becomes a sci/fi read of future corporate controlled Korea, complete with cloned humans. And the final story is one that takes place in post apocalyptic Hawaii. And then we go back to each story, in opposite order, and put the pieces together and complete the cliffhanger endings from the first half.
Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945
Cloud atlas = L'atlante delle nuvole
Authors' autographs (Provenance)
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¿Puede el amor, el poder del bien incluso en la adversidad, perdurar más allá de la vida que conocemos y prolongarse a través de siglos y lugares? Los seis protagonistas de la novela, en escenarios bien disímiles, ajenos a la trascendencia de sus acciones, tienen un papel mucho más relevante en la posteridad de lo que pueden imaginar.
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Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles and genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction that reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. "[David] Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel's every page."'The New York Times Book Review "One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it' modern classics that no doubt is'and should be'read by any student of contemporary literature."'Dave Eggers "Wildly entertaining . . . a head rush, both action-packed and chillingly ruminative."'People "The novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book, and yet'not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I've never read anything quite like it, and I'm grateful to have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds."'Michael Chabon.
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
Electronic books
Skyatlas
Bundel verhalen die zich op verschillende tijden en plaatsen afspelen, maar toch raakvlakken met elkaar tonen.
Atlante delle nuvole
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Bundel met elf verhalen die zich op verschillende tijden en plaatsen afspelen, maar toch raakvlakken met elkaar tonen.
Cloud atlas
Mitchell weaves history, science, humor and suspense in six separate but related narratives, each set in a different time and place.
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"Pasazer statku, z utesknieniem wygladajacy konca podrozy przez Pacyfik w 1850 roku; wydziedziczony kompozytor, usilujacy oszustwem zarobic na chleb w Belgii lat miedzywojennych; dziennikarka-idealistka w Kalifornii rzadzonej przez gubernatora Reagana; wydawca ksiazek, uciekajacy przed gangsterami, ktorym jest winien pieniadze; genetycznie modyfikowana uslugujaca z restauracji, w oczekiwaniu na wykonanie wyroku smierci; i Zachariasz, chlopak z wysp Pacyfiku, ktory przyglada sie, jak dogasa swiatlo nauki i cywilizacji - narratorzy Atlasu Chmur slysza nawzajem swoje echa poprzez meandry dziejow, co odmienia ich los zarowno w blahym, jak i w donioslym wymiarze."--Cover.
"A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small."--Provided by publisher.
Reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.
Powieść angielska
Weaves history, science, suspense, humor & pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume's most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician's effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer & a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is).
Mitchell's virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naïve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel's themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell's characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalayptic world.
The novel features six characters in interlocking stories, each interrupting the one before it: a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a hig-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation. The narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changes in ways great and small.
a novel
Fiction
Follows incidents in the lives of people living in various times and places.
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified "dinery server" on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
Der Wolkenatlas : Roman ; das Buch zum Film äCloud atlasä
Cloud atlas : [screenplay]
Erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
Atlas chmur
Modern fiction
Cloud atlas : a novel
Der Wolkenatlas Roman ; [das Buch zum Film "Cloud atlas"]
Cloud atlas a novel
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Recounts the conneced stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
Cloud atlas : [the international bestseller ... now a major motion picture]
Sans le savoir, des personnages d'époques différentes sont liés par une destinée commune tissée dans le temps et dont le dessein n'apparaît que progressivement : Ewing, un homme de loi américain du milieu du XIXe siècle, Frobisher, un jeune compositeur du début du XXe siècle, Luisa Rey, une journaliste des années 1970, un androïde condamné à mort par un Etat situé dans le futur, etc.
Psychological fiction
Fantasy fiction
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies... A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer bagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation - the narrators of Cloud atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
Drama
El atlas de las nubes
Destin et fatalisme Romans, nouvelles, etc.