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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Pasta dura – Big Book, 23 agosto 2022
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War
“Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel.
Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization.
For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…
Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
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“Babel has earned tremendous praise and deserves all of it. It’s Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass by way of N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season: inventive and engaging, passionate and precise. Kuang is fiercely disciplined even when she’s playful and experimental … Like the silver bars at its heart—like empires and academic institutions both—Babel derives its power from sustaining a contradiction, from trying to hold in your head both love and hatred for the charming thing that sustains itself by devouring you.” — New York Times Book Review
“A fantastical takedown of 19th-century imperialism that’s as meaty as its title. R.F. Kuang proved her prowess at blending history and magic with her debut series, The Poppy War, and she’s done it once again in this sweeping novel that blends historical fantasy and dark academia…If, as Babel suggests, words contain magic, then Kuang has written something spellbinding.” — Oprah Daily
“Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” — S.A. Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass
“A fantastically made work, moving and enraging by turns, with an ending to blow down walls.” — The Guardian
"Kuang follows her award-winning Poppy War trilogy with an engaging fantasy about the magic of language. Her richly descriptive stand-alone novel about an ever-expanding, alternate-world empire powered by magically enhanced silver talismans scrutinizes linguistics, history, politics, and the social customs of Victorian-era Great Britain." — Booklist (starred review)
"It's ambitious and powerful while displaying a deep love of language and literature...Dark academia as it should be."
— Kirkus Reviews
“The true magic of Kuang’s novel lies in its ability to be both rigorously academic and consistently welcoming to the reader, making translation on the page feel as enchanting and powerful as any effects it can achieve with the aid of silver.” — Oxford Review of Books
“R.F. Kuang has written a masterpiece. Through a meticulously researched and a wholly impressive deep dive into linguistics and the politics of language and translation, Kuang weaves a story that is part love-hate letter to academia, part scathing indictment of the colonial enterprise, and all fiery revolution.”
— Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun
"Babel is a masterpiece. A stunningly brilliant exploration of identity, belonging, the cost of empire and revolution—and the true power of language. Kuang has written the book the world has been waiting for." — Peng Shepherd, bestselling author of The Cartographers
"Kuang has outdone herself. Babel is brilliant, vicious, sensitive, epic, and intimate; it's both a love letter and a declaration of war. It's a perfect book."
— Alix E. Harrow, bestselling author of A Mirror Mended
“A brilliant and often harrowing exploration of violence, etymology, colonialism, and the intersections that run between them. Babel is as profound as it is moving.”
> — Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the Witching
“An astonishing mix of erudition and emotion. What Kuang has done here, I have never before seen in literature.” — Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Goliath
“If you only read one book this year, read this one. Through the incredibly believable alternative HF, Kuang has distilled the truth about imperialism and colonization in our world. Kuang’s depth of knowledge of history and linguistics is breathtaking. This book is a masterpiece in every sense of the word, a true privilege to read.” — Jesse Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties
"A book that confirms Kuang as a major talent." — SFX
"BABEL is one of the finest standalone novels I’ve read. It is a victory for literature, and its quality is what every other dark academia novel should strive to be. Paying homage to the importance of languages, translations, identity, and ethnicities, BABEL is one of the most important works of the year." — Novel Notions
"Babel is ambitious, engaging, impactful, and executed with brutal effectiveness." — reader@work
Biografía del autor
Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.
- Número de páginas560 páginas
- IdiomaInglés
- EditorialHarper Voyager
- Fecha de publicación23 agosto 2022
- Dimensiones15.24 x 4.19 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-100063021420
- ISBN-13978-0063021426
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- Editorial : Harper Voyager (23 agosto 2022)
- Idioma : Inglés
- Pasta dura : 560 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 0063021420
- ISBN-13 : 978-0063021426
- Dimensiones : 15.24 x 4.19 x 22.86 cm
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The book itself is not a difficult read, although difficult to put down. The characters are real human people, as they begin to learn the world around them. They begin in adolescence, as we all do, struggle just as modern students do, with coursework, and the burden of trying to get the best marks they can, and the terror that they won't.
Robin Swift, the protagonist, is the half Chinese son of an Oxford professor, plucked from poverty and despair after the death of his mother from cholera. This man will never treat Robin as a son and will never acknowledge him, but that just makes Robin work all the harder in hopes of pleasing him.
At Oxford, he meets the other three members of his cohort, an Indian boy, Ramy, a Jaitian creole girl, Victoire, and Letty, who is upper-class English, but estranged from her family because she is attending university. They are there because they are destined to become Translatorthosefew who can understand multiple languages well enough to work the magical silver bars that keep everything in the Empire running as it should.
Gradually, they all learn of the injustice the British Empire has inflicted not only on them, personally, but their countries of origin. Three of them become willing members of Hermes, a clandestine group of current and former members of Babel Tower, where translators study and work. They learn that without the translators, the Empire would collapse. Among the Hermes members Robin encounters is Griffin, his half brother, now disoen3d by the professor who brought them both to England.
I loved this book. Becoming an adult is never an easy thing. Adolescence is a chrysalis time, when who we are is yet unformed, but we have already become more than our parents' children. We learn many of the same difficult truths as Robin and his cohort do, that the world we thought we grew up in is not the real one. And the author lets us experience that with them. There is plenty of action and plenty of tender moments besides.
R.F. Kuang leads us into asking ourselves who must suffer to produce the things we need and desire and who profits along the way. We learn to question ourselves as the four friends do, and if the answers are not comfortable, that's the price of growing up.
To summarize, "Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution" is a masterful exploration of translation, colonialism, and their lasting impact on our world. Its excellent commentary, real-world relevance, tragic undertones, and scholarly depth make it a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of language, power, and history.
Revisado en Francia el 10 de diciembre de 2023
Nein, mit Harry Potter hat Babel nichts zu tun - und das ist auch gut so. Wo Harry potter eher einen "Make up as we go"-Ansatz verfolgt, merkt man bei Babel, dass eine enorme Menge Recherche in das Buch eingeflossen ist - und das World Building ist entsprechend dicht und kohärent:
Babel spielt in einem viktorianischen England zur Zeit der Industrialisierung. Nur wird diese nicht durch Watts Dampfmaschine getragen, sondern durch Magie. Die Magie basiert auf Silber, das aus den Kolonien stammt, und auf Ungenauigkeiten in Übersetzungen zwischen zwei Sprachen. Entsprechend sind auch Englisch gebildete Übersetzer aus den Kolonien wichtige Bestandteile der Maschine - und genau das ist das Problem. Wo Sexismus und Rassimus reagieren, gehören auch die wichtigsten Säulen nicht dazu.
In diesem Umfeld bewegt sich das Buch, entsprechend politisch wird die Geschichte. Dabei ist die Story nicht nur dicht, sondern auch spannend, denn die Autorin kann sehr gut schreiben.
Ich finde es immer ein bisschen Schade, dass "Alternative Geschichte" fast immer bedeutet "Jemand anderes hat eine Schlacht gewonnen", gerade weil Geschichte so im allgemeinen nicht funktioniert. Babel erzählt wirklich in einer alternativen Geschichte und macht gerade deswegen wichtige Aussagen zu unserer. Und ist nebenbei ein verdammt spannendes, originelles Buch.