Pondré Mi Oído En La Piedra Hasta Que Hable / I Will Put My Ear on the Stone Unt Il It Speaks

Esta esperada novela de William Ospina busca, entre miles de p?ginas cient?ficas y los testimonios de sus encuentros, al Humboldt m?s humano y personal que all? se esconde.

«C?mo no fascinarse con un pa?s donde los
cangrejos ten?an el color de los cielos y todo
era tan nuevo como si en cada d?a estuviera
la creaci?n del mundo .
—
«Humboldt es otro de los nombres del
mundo, y es esencialmente inabarcable .

«Se expuso al pasmo de las lunas y a la insolaci?n en los desiertos de salitre, a vendavales y tormentas el?ctricas, vivi? aguaceros interminables bajo las enramadas de la selva, prob? la electricidad de los gimnotos y succion? venenos de serpiente, estuvo a punto de ahogarse en los raudales del Orinoco y en las tormentas de Bar?, sinti? el abismo desde el lomo de las mulas en los desfiladeros del Quind?o, afront? los escorpiones del Cauca, las ranas venenosas de Dagua, las noches de mosquitos del Magdalena, y no solo volvi? m?s fuerte a Europa, sino que disfrut? por d?cadas de una salud tan envidiable, que hubo quien pens? que aquel ba?o de peligros lo hab?a inmunizado contra la muerte .

En esta apasionante novela, con una curiosidad y una maestr?a comparables a las de su protagonista, William Ospina le sigue el rastro al Humboldt que viaj? por Am?rica: «Seres as? muy posiblemente marcan el fin de una ?poca y el inicio de otra, y Humboldt configura no solo una aventura cient?fica sino el comienzo de una mitolog?a que apenas adivinamos .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Among thousands of scientific pages and testimonies of his encounters, this much-awaited novel by William Ospina searches for the most hidden, human, and personal Humboldt.

“How could you not be fascinated by a country where crabs are the color of the sky, and everything is as new as if the world was created anew every single day.”

“Humboldt is one of the names for this world, and it is unfathomable.”

“He was exposed to the bemusement of the moons and the insolation of the saltpeter deserts, to gales and thunderstorms. He experienced endless downpours under the canopy of the jungle. He tested the electricity of the eels and sucked snake venoms. He almost drowned in the currents of the Orinoco and in the storms at Bar?. He felt the abyss from the back of a mule at the Quind?o gorges. He faced the Cauca scorpions, the poisonous frogs of Dagua, the mosquito nights in Magdalena. And not only did he return stronger to Europe, but enjoyed such an enviable health over many decades, that there were some who believed that plunge into danger had immunized him against death.”

In this thrilling novel, William Ospina, with a kind of curiosity and mastery comparable to those of his protagonist, follows Humboldt’s trail through the Americas. “Beings such as these quite possibly mark the end of an era and the beginning of another, and Humboldt not only sets up a scientific adventure, but the launch of a mythology we barely anticipate.”

Author: William Ospina
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9788439741831
Language: Spanish