The Weaver of Crowns by Germán Espinosa (.ePUB)
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The Weaver of Crowns by Germán Espinosa
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Overview: The legendary Colombian masterpiece, untranslated into English…until now.
A journey through 18th-century history from a Cartagena marked by the Inquisition, told through the eyes of a woman. Beyond being lucid and captivating, *The Weaver of Crowns*, centered on the character of Genoveva Alcocer, is a voyage through magnificent language, brimming with surprises, vigor, and suggestion. By guiding the reader through a passage of Cartagena’s history and its presence in the 18th century, it places them within the coordinates that have shaped the mentality, spirit, and reality of modern man. Beginning with a primal gestation, the sea, and its legendary beasts, Espinosa recreates a period in which knowing, anticipating, and creating were perilous; and explores stages where astrology, mathematics, the prevailing myths of the Old and New Worlds, intolerance, and war were presented as adventures of equal magnitude and risk. We are witnessing the collapse of an era dominated by superstition, when cruelty and the lust for power devour the very spirit of nations, but also the affirmation, intelligence, intuition, and vision of thinkers, inventors, revolutionaries, and dissidents—those cultivators of the spirit who will exert a remarkable influence on subsequent generations. With his erudite and passionate vision of Cartagena and that era, his fervor for historical themes and masterful use of language, and a keen clarity about the past and the future beyond the future, the novelist predicts that the burden of violence, inquisition, horror, ignorance, and brutality will not last. In the long run, imagination and creativity will be stronger than the gears of warlords and stupidity. Spirit and intelligence will win the battle against darkness.
This unofficial translation is for personal, not commercial, use. It is inevitably imperfect, but is intended to provide English readers with a window on this important novel in the absence of a definitive professional translation.
Translation and cover by Rb.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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