- Autor: GORE VIDAL
- Editorial: VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL. RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
- Fecha de salida: 2000
- Descargado: 8550
Gore Vidal's mil novecientos setenta y tres novel in the guise of a memoir of Burr's life is told with plenty of gossipy detail. Hables Schermerhorn Schuyler, an ambitious journalist, is writing an anonymous pamphlet to prove that Martin Van Buren (Jackson's vice-president) is the bastard son of Aaron Burr. Schuyler wants not to harm Burr, but to r uin Van Buren. (As Vidal famously said, "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.") Burr, thinking that Schuyler is writing a biography, gives him a memoir. The novel combines Schuyler's point of view with Burr's own memoir, and during the course of the double narrative, Schuyler discovers the truth about Van Buren--and about himself. Charlie Schuyler also appears in Vidal's novels LINCOLN and mil ochocientos setenta y seis. ...