Tetralogía científica

In an age of closed minds, chaos and a centuries-old misconception of the universe, a few men dared to challenge that view, determined to discover and reveal how the world worked. In Copernicus, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning novel, Banville evokes the life of a timid man, bewildered by the conspiracies raging around him and in search of a truth that shattered the medieval view of the universe. In Kepler, winner of The Guardian Fiction Award, he follows in the footsteps of one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers, whose quest to chart the stars and planets would revolutionize the view of the cosmos that governed Renaissance Europe. In The Newton Letter, a contemporary historian retires to the countryside to finish his biography of Isaac Newton, but his book goes into a loop when he becomes obsessed with the nervous breakdown the great British physicist and mathematician suffered in the summer of 1693 and with the family that rents him the summer cottage. Finally, with Mefisto Banville he gives a twist to the myth of Doctor Faust and the price that the scientist and the artist must pay for their vocation.