Justification of Johann Gutenberg, The
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0099285290
ISBN 13
9780099285298
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
259
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Abstract
Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Sixty odd years later he died - robbed of his business, his printing presses, and, so he thought, his immortality. Johann Gutenberg, master printer, charmer, conman and visionary was the man who invented 'artificial writing' and printed the Gutenberg Bible.In his dazzling first novel Morrison gives us Gutenberg's 'testament' - his justification, dictated to one of the young scribes his invention has put out of work. Through the words of his endearing, exasperating creation Morrison conjures up the colourful, plague-ridden world of fifteenth-century Europe, the rich burghers, concupiscent daughters, wily apprentices, careless scribes - and the craftsmen who pioneered the art of print. But, above all, there is the exasperating, endearing and finally haunting figure of Gutenberg himself: a man who gambled everything - money, honour, friendship and a woman's love - on the greatest invention of the last millennium.
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Compétences : Lire Débutant complet : non
Documents inclus : Texte littéraire original
Descriptif : Premier roman de l'auteur contemporain Blake Morrison déjà connu pour ses mémoires, poèmes et livres pour enfants.
Résumé : L'histoire nous transporte à l'époque du Moyen Age et de l'invention de l'imprimerie.
Documents inclus : Texte littéraire original
Descriptif : Premier roman de l'auteur contemporain Blake Morrison déjà connu pour ses mémoires, poèmes et livres pour enfants.
Résumé : L'histoire nous transporte à l'époque du Moyen Age et de l'invention de l'imprimerie.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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CRL Médecine | 95559 | LIV ANG FICT | 1 | S. 619 | Yes |