The memoirs of Christopher Columbus:
Christopher Columbus has read all of his biographers, and he decides to tell his story as it actually happened in the 15th century.
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| Language: | English |
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Scribner's
1987
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| Summary: | Christopher Columbus has read all of his biographers, and he decides to tell his story as it actually happened in the 15th century. |
| Physical Description: | 569 S. Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0684187698 |
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laking
on five centuries of self-styled historians
and self-serving biographers, Christopher
Columbus, in collaboration with Stephen
Marlowe, at last tells the authentic, surprising,
and thoroughly captivating story of his life.
And what a storyteller he is! With boisterous
humor, with wit and wisdom and
(
most of the
time) appealing modesty, the Admiral of the
Ocean Sea and Viceroy of the indies casts aside
narrative convention
-
and, when necessary,
the veil between illusion and reality- to create
a novel of stunning imagination.
Born en route from Spain to Italy, and edu
cated first at the knee of a pa
isti tute
called The
Amazon and then in the Renaissance palace of
Roderigo Cardinal Borgia, Columbus flees a
pre-Machiaveffian contract on his life and goes
to sea. In a series of misadventures that range
from Iceland
ю
Africa, he is reunited with his
long-lost brother and becomes, in
tum, hus¬
band,
falhei;
widower, he seeks help far his
Great Venture from King Fernando and Queen
Isabel of Spain, entering her Majesty s Secret
Service to bring down the final Moorish strong¬
hold in Granada; and, in
1492,
he saib west into
the unknown
ю
become a legend in his own
time and far
аВ
time.
The landfall in the Bahamas, the initial
encounter between sophisticated Europeans
and noble savages, the triumphal return to
Spain, the subsequent colonial disasters, the
later return in chains, the apotheosis of the
fourth voyage—
al
evoke a world beyond the
grasp of mere historians.
Through the pages of this monumental novel
move a host of briiianrjy rendered characters.
There are the
winnen
behind (and sometimes
ahead of) Columbus: the first fateful love of his
Efe
in far
Engłarefctte
Portuguese wife and the
Spanish mistress; the queen who launches him
with dewy-eyed godspeed into immortality, and,
foremost, the haunting and haunted Jewish
beauty
Petenera.
There are loyal shipmates and
traitorous mutineers; unctuous
courtiers,
ubiq¬
uitous moneymen, harried alchemists;Gypsies
and pirates; Irish monks and Icelandic saga
tellers. There are the Grand Inquisitor Torque
mada
and his
satanic
henchmen. And there is
that crass opportunist Amerigo Vespucci, who
manages to displace the narrator s name from
all the maps of his New world.
The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus is a
bravura
performance, a
novel of dazzling con
cept, execution, and power. In his collaborator,
Columbus has found an author who brings to
the story a profound empathy, a delightful irony;
and a Hnguistkr gift perfectly judged eo bridge the
gap between the explorers time and our own.
Stephen Marlowe studied philosophy at the
College of
VnUiam
and Man in Virginia He
sowed in the Korean Vftr and became the
fitst
writer in residence
л
William and Mary The
Memoirs of Christopher Columbus is his dev
enth novel
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