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9788417007034

El meteorólogo

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  • ISBN13:

    9788417007034

  • ISBN10:

    8417007032

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2018-07-01
  • Publisher: Libros Del Asteroide
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Summary

One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison. Following his sudden arrest less than a year before, he was exiled to a gulag, forced to spend his remaining years on an island in the frozen north. Olivier Rolin discovered an album of the letters which Alexey sent home to his wife and daughter. Intrigued by these images, Rolin became determined to uncover Alexey’s story and his eventual horrifying fate.
 
Como jefe del Servicio Meteorológico de la URSS, Alekséi Feodósievich Vangengheim se dedica a estudiar las particularidades meteorológicas del vasto territorio soviético y a ayudar con sus predicciones a la construcción del socialismo. Sin embargo, en 1934 será acusado de traición al régimen y encerrado en un campo de trabajo, convirtiéndose en una más de los millones de víctimas del terror estalinista. Durante todos los años en los que Alekséi estuvo preso hasta su muerte, dirigió la mayor parte de su correspondencia a su hija, Eleonora, que tenía cuatro años en el momento de su detención, y a quien no vería nunca más. El descubrimiento de esta correspondencia motivó a Olivier Rolin a indagar en las circunstancias que rodearon su desaparición y tratar de reconstruir su vida. En un estilo directo y brillante, Rolin narra la historia de Vangengheim, habla de la recuperación (u olvido) de la memoria del periodo soviético en la Rusia actual y reflexiona también sobre el vacío que el final de la utopía comunista ha dejado en Occidente, porque, como bien dice, «el triunfo mundial del capitalismo no se explicaría sin el terrible final de la esperanza revolucionaria». Esta obra se benefició del apoyo de los Programas de ayuda a la publicación del Institut Français.

Author Biography

Olivier Rolin is a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure where he studied both philosophy and French Classical Literature. Considered one of France's most distinguished contemporary novelists, Rolin won the Prix Femina for his novel Port-Sudan, while Tigre en Papier was nominated for the 2003 Goncourt Prize. He is also an editor for the Parisian publisher Le Seuil and for the magazine Le Meilleur des mondes. 

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