Magister Ludi: Cuentos

by Philip Potdevin

Spanish

118 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Adriana Villegas Botero · Rating 5 out of 5]

La edición reúne ocho cuentos del escritor caleño, en los que se develan algunas constantes de su obra como los espacios urbanos, los personajes solitarios, la imposibilidad (o la dificultad) en la comunicación y los encuentros amorosos en los que siempre queda faltando algo y por lo tanto el final no es rosa. Son historias cotidianas, no muy asombrosas (a excepción de el ex-libris del príncipe Volkonskii). Suceden indistintamente en Bogotá, Cartagena, Escocia o Rusia y las atmósferas que rodean a los personajes, si bien no son sórdidas, son grises, no muy alegres.

[Phillip Blansett sr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society.

One of the hardest ... Yet meaningful ... Books I've ever read ... The concept that an individual makes a move expressed as in terms of his specialty (as expressed as a mathematical equation), responded to by another player in terms of HIS specialty (as in a musical phrase)