Nostalgia for the present and the scientific story in the novels of Paul Auster
in the novel David Copperfield, the writer Charles Dickens tells us about that experience common to humans where what we ...
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When Georges Perec messed around with the scientific archives
If there has been a playful writer, it, without a doubt, has been Georges Perec. These days a book has ...
The incredible game that makes fun of the law of universal gravitation
In one of his first novels, Paul Auster makes a child fly. After passing the tests of the initiation rite, ...
The incredible game that makes fun of the law of universal gravitation
In one of his first novels, Paul Auster makes a child fly. After passing the tests of the initiation rite, ...
Paul Auster and phantom limb syndrome
At the beginning of Paul Auster's latest novel, titled Baumgartner (Seix Barral), there is a shocking scene. It is the ...
Combinatorial designs
The second stanza of a sestina, as we saw last week, rearranges the endings of the six verses from ABCDEF ...
'MANIAC', when the devil knocks at the door it is best to invite him in
This story begins with a gunshot in the early morning. And it ends with a machine equipped with real creativity ...
Detective novels and scientific methodology, a good couple
There is a close relationship between detective novels, let's say detectives, and the scientific method. The search for the cause ...
Herzog's memoirs: each man for himself and God against everyone
In one of Werner Herzog's films, the inhabitants of a remote African village interpret in their own way the sign ...
The cobalt goblins and other stories from hell
In the 1730s, Swedish physician Georg Brandt (1694-1768) discovered cobalt as the first substance other than iron to be attracted ...
