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| Original Title: | El pintor de batallas |
| ISBN: | 9870403409 (ISBN13: 9789870403401) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Characters: | Faulques, Ivo Malkovic, Olvido Ferrara |
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.63 | 3373 Users | 353 Reviews
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En una torre junto al Mediterráneo, en busca de la foto que nunca pudo hacer, un antiguo fotógrafo pinta un gran fresco circular en la pared: el paisaje intemporal de una batalla. Lo acompañan en la tarea un rostro que regresa del pasado para cobrar una deuda mortal, y la sombra de una mujer desaparecida diez años atrás. En torno a esos tres personajes, Arturo Pérez-Reverte ha escrito la más intensa y turbadora historia de su larga carrera de novelista. Deslumbrante de principio a fin, El pintor de batallas arrastra al lector, subyugado, a través de la compleja geometría del caos del siglo XXI: el arte, la ciencia, la guerra, el amor, la lucidez y la soledad, se combinan en el vasto mural de un mundo que agoniza
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| Title | : | El pintor de batallas |
| Author | : | Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | March 5th 2006 by Alfaguara (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. War. Cultural. Spain. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Art |
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Ratings: 3.63 From 3373 Users | 353 ReviewsJudge Of Books El pintor de batallas
Originally written here. SYMMETRY After Isaac Newton laid his 3rd law of motion, almost every branch of science agreed with him. I suppose, even religion does. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It is the fundamental symmetry of the universe. Our every action draws an imaginary path, an effect. Sometimes even a small change may result to a large difference.Andrés Faulques, a war photographer by profession, decided to leave his famous life and secluded himself in a towerThis book discusses the horrors of war and the futility of capturing it for others to see. Are you trying to tell the horrors of war to dissuade it, or are you really fascinated by it (and in that way perpetuate it?)Faulques is a war photographer, or was one. He now focuses on a mural to adorn the wall of a lighthouse. It shall feature every famous battle depicted over the centuries of war. He is interrupted by his own past. A subject of one of his award winning photographs has sought him out,
This book discusses the horrors of war and the futility of capturing it for others to see. Are you trying to tell the horrors of war to dissuade it, or are you really fascinated by it (and in that way perpetuate it?)Faulques is a war photographer, or was one. He now focuses on a mural to adorn the wall of a lighthouse. It shall feature every famous battle depicted over the centuries of war. He is interrupted by his own past. A subject of one of his award winning photographs has sought him out,
A few years ago I tried to read this book and I left it after the first chapter. I found it slow and boring. A few days ago I took it back and finally I was able to read it completely. It happens that the style and theme of the work is very different from previous APR books that I had read, all full of adventures, characters and action plots. Here the novelist relaxes and writes in a more personal key, full of reflections and, above all, pessimism. But once one grasps the trick the reading flows
Read this for the Strathmore book discussion group. I did not like it at all. It was depressing - all about his internal conflict with the wars he covered and the scenes he witnesses and photographed. It almost felt evil. Was not a good book to read while sick - which I was. I did not like the writing style. Too many run on sentences. And he really likes to use hyphens to create even longer sentences. Would not recommend this book to anyone.
If I could give half ratings, this book would score a 4 1/2 stars...it has it's flaws but quite a few passages are quite brilliant.The basic premise is the life story, looking towards the past, of a famous war photographer. He's isolated and painting a huge battle to rival anything he's seen in real life throughout all of the countries and people he's photographing at war.But very soon within the first part of the book, he's confronted by a man who was the subject of one of his photos...the man
The Painter of Battles is a beautifully written word picture encompassing everything from "the Butterfly effect", to art history lessons, to a morality homily on the futility of war and the evil that man bestows on his fellow man. Perez-Reverte draws you into the story as he meticulously recounts (probably from his own experiences as a war journalist) example after example of the insanity of war and examines the cruelty and finality of its outcome. In essence, Perez-Reverte gives us and in depth
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