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R. M. Berry's Leonardo's Horse delivers a new take on the famous Renaissance sculptor, painter, mathematician, and scientist: Leonardo as proto-slacker, enthusiastic yet easily distracted, full of ambitious ideas and plans, yet never quite bringing them to fulfillment. Leonardo da Vinci forms one plot axis of this ambitious first novel; the other revolves around a failed academic known here simply as "R." Caught in his 1955 Buick Roadmaster during an AIDS rally gone very wrong, R recounts both his own story and that of Leonardo's death in 1519. Originally the subject of his dissertation ("The Cultural Iconography of 'Leonardo da Vinci'"), in R's hands Leonardo's story has morphed into a rollicking piece of fiction, as the Renaissance man's many disappointments mirror R's own. The author of a 1984 collection of short stories--Plane Geometry and Other Affairs of the Heart--Berry has a fine touch with contemporary details, and both present-day and Renaissance plots ably display his razor-sharp wit. Leonardo's Horse is a promising debut novel from a writer who dares to explore the complicated territory of failure.Read More

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    On May 2, 1519 at the Clos Luc in Amboise, Leonardo is dying. He no longer cares about art or science. He wants only to answer a simple question about his life: why did he abandon his colossal equestrian statue in Milan? Meanwhile, R-, a 20th century historian writing a novel about Leonardo, meditates upon the same question in the midst of an apocalyptic traffic jam, as military helicopters fill the air with tear gas, AIDS demonstrators run amok, and a hospital evacuates its patients onto a nearby sidewalk. Berry's stupendous novel is a fitting response to the close of a century obsessed with the "end of history." This book is a big masterpiece of a kind rarely dared in the contemporary novel.

  • 1573660310
  • 9781573660310
  • R.M. Berry
  • 13 November 1997
  • Fiction Collective Two
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 317
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