Post by The Dream Warrior on Nov 13, 2005 18:01:25 GMT -5
El Club Dumas (or The Club Dumas) is the book that The Ninth Gate was based on. It was writen by Arturo Perez-Reverte, and was translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto.
Here's a brief sypnosis of the book:
The hero of Spanish author Perez-Reverte's freewheeling, ambitious literary mystery is Lucas Corso, an itinerant rare-book hunter who'd gladly sell his grandmother for a first edition. When a wealthy cookbook publisher and bibliophile is found hanged in his study, leaving behind an original handwritten chapter from Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, antiquarian book dealer Flavio LaPorte asks his friend Corso to authenticate the manuscript. What begins as a straightforward assignment soon complicates into a bewildering tangle of literary gamesmanship as the book detective finds himself swept into a real-life adventure-serial and crime novel rolled into one. As the action shifts from Madrid to Portugal to Paris, the intrepid, bad-tempered, gin-swilling Corso encounters a host of intriguing characters, including devil worshippers, obsessed book collectors and a hypnotically appealing femme fatale. Suspense-filled and ingenious, Perez-Reverte's latest (after The Flanders Panel) is also something of a primer on the rare-book business and a witty meditation on the relationship between book lovers and the texts they adore.
I just finished reading this book for 2nd time, and I absolutley love it. It's an excellent read, very suspenseful and delightful. I highly reconmend it.
For those who have seen The Ninth Gate, you will notice that the book is a little different than the movie. It delves further in to Corso's life, and basically explains why he acts the way he does.
Tiffany
Here's a brief sypnosis of the book:
The hero of Spanish author Perez-Reverte's freewheeling, ambitious literary mystery is Lucas Corso, an itinerant rare-book hunter who'd gladly sell his grandmother for a first edition. When a wealthy cookbook publisher and bibliophile is found hanged in his study, leaving behind an original handwritten chapter from Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, antiquarian book dealer Flavio LaPorte asks his friend Corso to authenticate the manuscript. What begins as a straightforward assignment soon complicates into a bewildering tangle of literary gamesmanship as the book detective finds himself swept into a real-life adventure-serial and crime novel rolled into one. As the action shifts from Madrid to Portugal to Paris, the intrepid, bad-tempered, gin-swilling Corso encounters a host of intriguing characters, including devil worshippers, obsessed book collectors and a hypnotically appealing femme fatale. Suspense-filled and ingenious, Perez-Reverte's latest (after The Flanders Panel) is also something of a primer on the rare-book business and a witty meditation on the relationship between book lovers and the texts they adore.
I just finished reading this book for 2nd time, and I absolutley love it. It's an excellent read, very suspenseful and delightful. I highly reconmend it.
For those who have seen The Ninth Gate, you will notice that the book is a little different than the movie. It delves further in to Corso's life, and basically explains why he acts the way he does.
Tiffany
