- Taschenbuch: 400 Seiten
- Verlag: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Auflage: Rh Trade Pbk. (10. Februar 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0812971043
- ISBN-13: 978-0812971040
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13 x 2,2 x 20,3 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 33.912 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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(Starred Review) Pearl's gripping debut novel, set in Boston in 1865, begins with the discovery of the maggot-ridden, dead body of Judge Artemus Healey. The murder shocks the city, and the police are horrified by the possibility that Healey may have been alive for the four days during which the maggots consumed his body. The next murder is equally as disturbing: Reverend Elisha Talbot is found in the underground passages beneath the church, having been buried alive with his feet burned off. The members of the Dante Club--publisher J. T. Fields, essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes, and poets James Russell Lowell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow--have been laboring on translating and discussing Dante's Divine Comedy and quickly recognize the gruesome murders from the pages of Dante's Inferno. Knowing that only a limited number of people are familiar with Dante's work, the members of the Dante Club conduct their own investigation into the killings. They zero in on a disgruntled Italian academic living in Boston, but the killer, whom they refer to as Lucifer, may be even closer than they suspect. Expertly weaving period detail, historical fact (the Dante Club did indeed exist), complex character studies, and nail-biting suspense, Pearl has written a unique and utterly absorbing tale. Kristine Huntley
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Pearl's fiction debut should please fans of well-crafted literary mysteries. The title refers to an actual group of 19th-century Bostonians who gathered to translate Dante's Inferno for an American audience. Among the members of this exclusive "club" were poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, and poet James Russell Lowell. While poring over the poem, the men find themselves on the trail of a serial killer who tortures his victims in ways that seem to be taken straight out of the pages of Inferno. The police are at a loss and must rely on the club members' unique knowledge of Dante's work to help catch the killer. Pearl, a recognized Dante scholar, uses his expertise to create an absorbing and dramatic period piece. Using historical figures in a mystery setting is not a new idea (e.g., Sir Isaac Newton plays detective in Philip Kerr's Dark Matter), but Pearl has proven himself a master. Best for medium to large public and academic libraries.
--Laurel Bliss, Yale Arts Lib.
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--Laurel Bliss, Yale Arts Lib.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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Die hervorragenden Abschnitte werden leider durch seltsam anmutende und deshalb schwierig mit Spannung zu lesende Teile unterbrochen. Eine detaillierte Kenntnis der "Göttlichen Komödie" ist sicherlich von Vorteil, ausserdem eine Ebensolche der amerikanischen Geschichte der Sezessionskriegszeit, denn es kommen immer wieder Persönlichkeiten (und Orte) vor, die ein Nicht-Amerikaner und ein Nicht-Geschichtslehrer nicht wirklich einordnen kann, weshalb kurzzeitig Unverständnis und ein Abbruch des Lesevergnügens aufkommt, was etwas frustrieren kann. Der Autor glänzt durch fundiertes Wissen, die Geschichte wäre eigentlich sehr spannend. Gewisse Ausdrücke wirken aus heutiger Sicht eher befremdlich. Leider etwas zu harzig geraten, mit einem zu langen Schluss.
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If, 'The Dante Club", is an indication of what readers may expect from future works by Mr. Matthew Pearl, a great new novelist has arrived. Mr. Pearl has not just taken a great setting and a great tale, but he has added notable historical figures as well as one of the most noted pieces of literature ever written, and molded them in to a wonderful mystery on the streets of Boston in 1865. He also has not hesitated to take venerable institutions to task, regardless of their presumed august positions when they stoop to hypocrisy or other unsavory acts.
The work of Dante was virtually unknown in this period of Boston's history except by the very few and equally few well educated. It was considered modern, controversial, and an affront to the classics that were taught at institutions like Harvard University. And then there is The Dante club whose members include Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell who are in the process of bringing out the first English translation of Dante's work for American readers. Powerful forces such as Harvard, amongst others, are against it, nevertheless the group proceeds week by week and level by level through the world of Dante as they prepare their publication. The process is closely guarded with their publisher knowing the full contents of their progress and other confidants having only the knowledge that their work proceeds.
But prior to publication meticulous Dantean murders occur, but knowledge of the translation is not well known, it is not even complete, and yet the murders are carried out with an exactitude that only a scholar of Dante's work would have access to. And just as Dante fits his punishments to a crime of specificity, this murderer too follows the famous work in the most exacting detail.
These are the circumstances that author Matthew Pearl arranges in his debut work, "The Dante Club", and the tour he takes readers upon is literate, well-constructed and erudite. The author was honored in 1998 when he was awarded The Dante Prize for his scholarly work by The Dante Club of America. This is a novelist that has the credentials to effectively combine his formal education in Dante with great skill as a writer of fiction.
There are many new authors that debut every year. There are far fewer who will return a second time, or even if they do will have their subsequent work noticed. I believe Matthew Pearl will be the exception. He is no one trick wonder, and no sophomore jinx awaits him either. He is very bright, as his accomplishments at Harvard and Yale have demonstrated, and he is most capable with a pen as, "The Dante Club" has shown.
Read this young man's first work, you will have the experience of excellent writing, a wonderful use of your reading time, and the pleasure of having discovered this young author on his first venture in to the eye of the public.
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I bought the book at the airport, just like that. I did not know the writer, neither had I heard about the book. I liked the title. Simple as that. Now that I have finished it, I have to say that I had made the right choice. It's a good book. Well written and enthralling. I have to admit that it took me a while to get into it but once I was passed the first chapter, I found it difficult to put it down. Pearl takes us on a nice voyage into a past time that we've heard so much about. He creates the right mood for this crime story and makes us become a part of it. We like and dislike the characters, share their frustrations and try to picture what they look like. Will Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes and Fields together with Rey catch the murderer? Will Rey finally be accepted by his fellow policemen?
It's a well written story, which makes us wish to now discover Signor Dante himself.
It's a well written story, which makes us wish to now discover Signor Dante himself.
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grandios!
Selten habe ich ein fesselnderes buch in die hände bekommen!!die verflechtung von literarischem wissen und der eigentlichen geschichte sowie die einzelnen darstellungen der... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. September 2005 veröffentlicht
Bah, a Load of Humbug
Once again I find myself opposite a tide of favorable opinion regarding a popular new book. I was, of course, excited to read Matthew Pearl's notable first novel, The Dante Club,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. März 2005 von Patrick Burnett
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