Leonardo's Horse

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On May 2,1519 at the Clos Lucé in Amboise, Leonardo is dying. He no longer cares about art or science. He wants only to answer a simple question about his life: why did he abandon his colossal equestrian statue in Milan? Meanwhile, R—, a 20th century historian writing a novel about Leonardo, meditates upon the same question in the midst of an apocalyptic traffic jam, as military helicopters fill the air with tear gas, AIDS demonstrators run amok, and a hospital evacuates its patients onto a nearby sidewalk.
Berry's stupendous novel is a fitting response to the close of a century obsessed with the "end of history." This book is a big masterpiece of a kind rarely dared in the contemporary novel.
About R. M. Berry's Plane Geometry.
"Ideas offer salvation and wreak havoc in Plane Geometry, R. M. Berry's knock-'em-dead first collection of short stories His protagonists pour brain and soul into what they do, who they are, how they think. They've got headfuls of ideas that are... Tovább

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On May 2,1519 at the Clos Lucé in Amboise, Leonardo is dying. He no longer cares about art or science. He wants only to answer a simple question about his life: why did he abandon his colossal equestrian statue in Milan? Meanwhile, R—, a 20th century historian writing a novel about Leonardo, meditates upon the same question in the midst of an apocalyptic traffic jam, as military helicopters fill the air with tear gas, AIDS demonstrators run amok, and a hospital evacuates its patients onto a nearby sidewalk.
Berry's stupendous novel is a fitting response to the close of a century obsessed with the "end of history." This book is a big masterpiece of a kind rarely dared in the contemporary novel.
About R. M. Berry's Plane Geometry.
"Ideas offer salvation and wreak havoc in Plane Geometry, R. M. Berry's knock-'em-dead first collection of short stories His protagonists pour brain and soul into what they do, who they are, how they think. They've got headfuls of ideas that are driving them insane-and in some strange way, that's all they want."-l/LS
"Literature has not often done justice to the passion for form in mathematics, physics or music. In Plane Geometry, an excellent first collection of short stories, R. M. Berry attempts to connect the passions of intellectual form with passionate feelings like romantic love Mr. Berry doesn't overcome gravity, but he does show that heavy abstractions become buoyant when they are treated this lovingly."—hew York Times Vissza