by John Banville · Salvat Editores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434590960
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«Copérnico» is the historical novel by John Banville, published by Salvat Editores in hardcover (261 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the life of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) and his dilemma between the certainty of his astronomical discoveries and the fear of the Church's reaction. Banville follows his intellectual formation and his career at Frauenburg Cathedral, showing how his heliocentric model challenged the closed cosmos that placed man at the center.
Volume 53 of Salvat's «Novela histórica» collection, published in 1995, with a translation by María Eugenia Ciocchini.
For readers of historical fiction and biographies, interested in the history of science and in the figure of the astronomer who proposed heliocentrism.
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.
