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'Solar': Irremediable historicidad
- Author(s):
- José Angel GARCÍA LANDA (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- English Literature, Environmental Humanities
- Subject(s):
- English literature, Literature, Twentieth century, Sustainability
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Scientists, Ian Mcewan, Solar energy, Picaresque fiction, 21st-century literature
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/9xjb-0a51
- Abstract:
- Spanish abstract: ¿Llegará a tiempo la energía solar sostenible? ́Solar ́ de Ian McEwan trata los ribetes picarescos de la ciencia occidental, con un tema casi cósmico de trasfondo, y con una vida complicada en primer plano. El protagonista, encarnación de la ciencia actual, es un pícaro moderno, que reúne en sí todos los extremos de la condición humana: a la vez genio y estafador en el plano científico, a partes iguales iluminado e incompetente; e impresentable, contradictorio y humano (demasiado) como persona. ______________________________________________________________________ English abstract: Will sustainable solar energy arrive in time? Ian McEwan's 'Solar' deals with the picaresque aspects of western science, with an almost cosmic subject as a backdrop, and with a complicated life on the foreground. The protagonist, an incarnation of present-day science, is a modern pícaro, who encompasses the extremes of the human condition: both a genius and a fraud as a scientist, simultaneously enlightened and incompetent; and unreliably immoral, contradictory and all too human as a human being.
- Notes:
- First published in 'Vanity Fea', 2011.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Online publication
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution
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