En estos dias de interregno papal, la atención y curiosidad de buena parte del mundo está enfocada en el proceso de elección del nuevo Papa. Y se trae a colación hechos como el breve reinado de Juan Pablo I por ejemplo, y todas las especulaciones que surgieron a raiz de su muerte al poco tiempo. El NYT publicó hace unos días un artículo sobre obras literarias que presentan, a su manera, cómo alrededor del cónclave hay toda una serie de intereses y poderes en juego.
With the papal conclave deadlocked, the 117 cardinals compromise on a Filipino as pope. When he is assassinated six months later by an Islamic suicide bomber, Cardinal Timothy John Mulrennan, the handsome, media-savvy archbishop of Newark, takes his place, becoming history's first American pope. So goes the story of Conclave an action-packed first novel published in 2001 by Greg Tobin, a writer from New Jersey.
The Shoes of the Fisherman the 1968 film of the novel by Morris L. West, with Anthony Quinn as the pope, was panned by critics for what they considered an absurd plot. It tells the story of a Ukrainian ex-political prisoner who becomes pope, ministers directly to the faithful and prevents China from going to war - all in an era when the idea of a non-Italian, anti-Soviet, activist pope like John Paul II was considered impossible.
Angels & Demons (Atria, 2003), the current best seller by Dan Brown, is at least as improbable. The book - peppered with factual errors, papal scholars like to point out - tells the story of a Harvard scholar, Robert Langdon (also the hero of Mr. Brown's "Da Vinci Code"), who helps save the Catholic Church from a bomb during a papal conclave convened after a pope is assassinated. The powerful camerlengo, or papal chamberlain, turns out to be the biological son of the dead pope, conceived through artificial insemination.
Andrew M. Greeley wrote The Making of the Popes which tracked the death of Pope Paul VI, the election of John Paul I and his death after a 33- day tenure, and the election of John Paul II. The book jacket describes it as an "exposé" of "the balloting, the intrigue, the politics behind the deliberations" of the cardinals at that time.
El artículo también habla de películas sobre el tema y presenta enlaces a reseñas y extractos de las obras mencionadas, así como a otras obras de no ficción sobre el mismo asuunto. Además incluye un slide show de un tour que se ofrece actualmente en Roma basado en la novela de Dan Simmons "Angeles y Demonios". Ah, y de mis propias lecturas me permito recomendar el cuento Buenas noticias del Vaticano, de Robert Silverberg, que trata sobre la elección del primer Papa ... robot. Se lo pueden bajar desde Sadrac, tiene el código 102, o directamente desde aquí.
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With the papal conclave deadlocked, the 117 cardinals compromise on a Filipino as pope. When he is assassinated six months later by an Islamic suicide bomber, Cardinal Timothy John Mulrennan, the handsome, media-savvy archbishop of Newark, takes his place, becoming history's first American pope. So goes the story of Conclave an action-packed first novel published in 2001 by Greg Tobin, a writer from New Jersey.
The Shoes of the Fisherman the 1968 film of the novel by Morris L. West, with Anthony Quinn as the pope, was panned by critics for what they considered an absurd plot. It tells the story of a Ukrainian ex-political prisoner who becomes pope, ministers directly to the faithful and prevents China from going to war - all in an era when the idea of a non-Italian, anti-Soviet, activist pope like John Paul II was considered impossible.
Angels & Demons (Atria, 2003), the current best seller by Dan Brown, is at least as improbable. The book - peppered with factual errors, papal scholars like to point out - tells the story of a Harvard scholar, Robert Langdon (also the hero of Mr. Brown's "Da Vinci Code"), who helps save the Catholic Church from a bomb during a papal conclave convened after a pope is assassinated. The powerful camerlengo, or papal chamberlain, turns out to be the biological son of the dead pope, conceived through artificial insemination.
Andrew M. Greeley wrote The Making of the Popes which tracked the death of Pope Paul VI, the election of John Paul I and his death after a 33- day tenure, and the election of John Paul II. The book jacket describes it as an "exposé" of "the balloting, the intrigue, the politics behind the deliberations" of the cardinals at that time.
El artículo también habla de películas sobre el tema y presenta enlaces a reseñas y extractos de las obras mencionadas, así como a otras obras de no ficción sobre el mismo asuunto. Además incluye un slide show de un tour que se ofrece actualmente en Roma basado en la novela de Dan Simmons "Angeles y Demonios". Ah, y de mis propias lecturas me permito recomendar el cuento Buenas noticias del Vaticano, de Robert Silverberg, que trata sobre la elección del primer Papa ... robot. Se lo pueden bajar desde Sadrac, tiene el código 102, o directamente desde aquí.
Technorati tags: libros, literatura, Vatican, Vaticano, Pope, Papa, Cónclave
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