**Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021
Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018
Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017
Mejor novela del 2016 según La Nación
**
«Ya es hora de que el alocado escritor argentino Daniel Guebel deje de
ser el secreto mejor guardado de la literaturaen castellano.» --Ricardo
Baixeras, El Periódico
Tres siglos de historia y una familia enloquecida y genial.
El absoluto es la crónica de las seis generaciones que cambiaron el
arte, la ciencia, la mística, la política y hasta el rumbo del Universo.
Del Big Bang a la Revolución Rusa, de la música aleatoria a la máquina
del tiempo, esta monumental novela, deslumbrante y desenfadada, sitúa a
Daniel Guebel, definitivamente, entre los autores más virtuosos de habla
hispana y entre los pocos capaces de escribir una obra que desafía a la
propia literatura.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
**Municipal Novel Prize 2021
Argentine National Literature Award 2018
Literary Award of the Argentine Academy of Letters 2017
Best Novel of 2016, according to *La Nación
A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness,
and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of
Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and
handled with a light touch.
The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the
Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and
madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and
ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters' lives play out in
different branches of art, politics, and science in such radical ways
that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator's ancestor,
Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century;
his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the
Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later
interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian
Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father,
creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to
the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the
moment of the Big Bang.
The Absolute is a monumental work about the creation of art and about
family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the
world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words.
