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El Banquete / Symposium
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ISBN13: 9791388154164
Publisher: Blackie Books
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.21
Language: Spanish
Publisher: Blackie Books
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.21
Language: Spanish
Un festÃn de la alta sociedad. El menú secretos, avaricia y un crimen en tiempo real. Una de las novelas más aclamadas de Muriel Spark, una autora inmortal. Drama y cotilleo en las altas esferas londinenses. En una elegante casa londinense, ocho invitados se reúnen para disfrutar de un banquete exquisito: faisán al coñac, vino francés, flores decorando la mesa y un apuesto mayordomo. Hablan de arte, de polÃtica y de viajes. Se podrÃa decir que la velada es impecable, si no fuera por la ausencia de una invitada, Hilda Damien, que se retrasa más de lo previsto y que nunca llegará a la cita, porque mientras ellos brindan con champán, ella está siendo asesinada. Publicado originalmente como Symposium (1990), este es uno de los grandes ejercicios de sátira social de Spark: afilado, divertido, feroz, absolutamente moderno. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Dame Muriel Spark delivers a delightfully alarming novel, full of high society and low cunning.
One October evening five posh London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is) and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very moment Symposium was applauded by Time magazine for the sinister elegance of Muriel Spark's medium of light but lethal comedy. Mixed in are a Monet, a mad uncle, some unconventional nuns, and a burglary ring run by a rent-a-butler. Symposium stars a perfectly evil young woman (a classic sweet-faced hair-raising Sparkian horror) who has married rich Hilda's son by hook or by crook, hooking him at the fruit counter of Harrod's. There is also spiritual conversation and the Bordeaux is superb. The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the talk continues, and all the time the ice on which the protagonists' world rests is being thinned from beneath, by boiling emotions and ugly motives .No living writer handles the tension between formality of expression and subversiveness of thought more elegantly. --The Independent on Sunday.
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