A Gentleman in Moscow

Paperback, 462 pages

Published April 27, 2017 by Windmill.

ISBN:
978-0-09-955878-1
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4 stars (30 reviews)

With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, “Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.”

A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the …

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Review of 'Un caballero en Moscú' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

En Rusia, la revolución bolchevique se vuelca sobre los que hasta entonces constituían la nobleza, motivo por el cual algunos logran escapar y otros son acusados y fusilados sin contemplación. Es en este contexto que nos encontramos con el conde Alexandr ILisch Rostov, todo un caballero de esos que hoy en día solo encontramos en las novelas, un hombre educado, respetuoso y muy consciente de su condición.

Al conde Rostov se le asigna la escritura años atrás de un poema que de alguna manera se convirtió en símbolo de la revolución, motivo por el cual se le perdona la vida, pero en su lugar se le “destierra” a vivir sin salir de su actual residencia, el Hotel Metropol de Moscú, donde será vigilado de cerca a fin de que cumpla con la sentencia en una pequeña habitación olvidada que era casi una bodega.

La personalidad y carácter del conde nos …

reviewed Un caballero en Moscú by Amor Towles

Libros que acarician

5 stars

Hay libros que acarician el alma. Este es el caso de Un caballero en Moscú. Desde las primeras páginas me sentí atrapado por su prosa. Amor Towles tiene la capacidad de transportarnos con sus letras a un mundo fantástico y hacernos disfrutar cada párrafo queriendo más.

Sobre traducciones

Pero esto no sería posible sin una traducción magistral. Si bien hay libros que leo en inglés (idioma en el que se escribió originalmente Un caballero en Moscú), en este caso leí la traducción al castellano realizado por Gemma Rovira Ortega. Y es que estamos muy mal acostumbrados a pasar por alto el nombre de los traductores, cuando su trabajo es valiosísimo.

«Es curioso —reflexionó antes de abandonar su suite—. Desde una edad muy temprana hemos de aprender a despedirnos de amigos y familiares. Les decimos adiós a nuestros padres y a nuestros hermanos en la estación; visitamos a nuestros primos, vamos …

Review of 'Un caballero en Moscú / A Gentleman in Moscow' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

The first few pages of [a:Amor Towels|20724993|Amor Towels|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]'s [b:A Gentleman in Moscow|34066798|A Gentleman in Moscow|Amor Towles|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1551480896l/34066798.SY75.jpg|45743836] are a list of things I don't like novels to start with: a map; a poem I don't get; a courtroom transcript. (What it didn't have of things I don't like was a list of the cast of characters and a long quote in a foreign language with no translation.) There are also, later, footnotes, which I don't think need to be in novels.
This had my hackles up, but it turns out to be one of the more delightful novels I've read in ages. Another thing I don't like in novels and would be tired of even if I did is them centering on people locked in small spaces. ([a:Emma Donoghue|23613|Emma Donoghue|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1591714728p2/23613.jpg]'s [b:Room|31685789|Room|Emma Donoghue|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1472239721l/31685789.SX50.jpg|9585076] started out that way and it would've been far less readable—by me, anyway—if it had …

Review of 'A Gentleman in Moscow' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

As a reader with little background in Russian history or literature, I appreciated the gentleness the author showed in these areas, while still giving me a firm nudge toward them. The characters always come first in this story, and I enjoyed getting to know them. In the end I asked myself, is the story overly optimistic? Does it gloss over too many horrors? So far I lean towards saying no, the depth is there if you want to look for it, even if the story doesn't dwell on it.

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