Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Britannica
by Germán Padinger
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In a future that seems close to becoming the past, the novel's characters struggle to adapt to the rapid concentration of information in a global file that can be accessed, as in a dream, through a cable connected directly to the brain: a process they call «enhancement».
Young programming students, a wear social science teacher, a woman searching for her missing husband in the cloud, and a colonizer trying to build a new world populate this novel.
Before them, virtual life and the ideology that «enhancement» brings will soon seem more attractive than flesh and blood, and the world will be immersed in a race towards transmigration, in transit times as technology advances. It is in this context that militants of an esoteric and nostalgic movement will try to warn about the dangers of abandoning the body, that old desire of philosophy.
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“All of this is told through independent stories that pivot around Infopeek, almost in the style of a storybook, with a light and extremely sympathetic tone.” Verónica Nieto, Rumiar la biblioteca
Author Biography
GERMÁN PADINGER
Germán Padinger is a political scientist and journalist interested in the theory of art, the economy and the societies of the Middle East.
He wrote in the paper edition of the Argentinian newspaper La Nación. He is currently working for the digital newspaper Infobae as an international journalist.
Germán is the author of the novel Britannica (Britannica), and the short story “La música de los padres” (“Parents’ Music”) in TRANS Stories.
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- Publisher/Imprint MAGMA Editorial, SC / MAGMA
- Publication Date August 2019
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788494947360
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 14.50 EUR
- Pages134
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Titlespa
- Original Language Authorsspa
- Edition1
- Copyright Year2016
- Page size210x130 (210x135) mm
- Reference Code5
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