El caso Kurílov

Title El caso Kurílov
Names Némirovsky, Irène.
Soriano, José Antonio. Translator
Book Number DBG20023
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation Summary: In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee. The assassination, he is told, must take place in public and be in most grandiose manner possible in order to strike the imagination of the people. Posing as his newly appointed personal physician, Leon M takes up residence with Courliof in his summer house in the Iles and awaits instructions. But over the course of his stay he is made privy to the inner world of Courliof - his failing health, his troubled domestic situation and, most importantly, the tyrannical grip that the Czar himself holds over all his Ministers, forcing them to obey him or suffer the most deadly punishments. Set during a period of radical upheaval in European history, "The Courliof Affair" is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power, an elegy to lost world and an unflinchingly topical cautionary tale. Unrated. Spanish language. Marrakesh title.
Reseña: En la terraza desierta de un café de Niza, conversan Iván Baránov, antiguo miembro de las fuerzas de seguridad del zar, y León M., un curtido revolucionario bolchevique. Si bien ambos estuvieron implicados en el caso Kurílov, León M. se niega a revelar su identidad y detallar su participación en los hechos. Sin embargo, tras su muerte se halla un texto mecanografiado en el que esboza su recorrido vital y confiesa los entresijos del caso. Unrated. Spanish language. Marrakesh title.
Narrator Ramírez García, María Teresa.
LC Subject Cabinet officers - Russia - Fiction
Physicians - Russia - Fiction
Assassins - Russia - Fiction
Russia - History - Nicholas II, 1894-1917 - Fiction
Historical fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Call Number 843.912 AFI
Original Publication Recorded from: 2010 9788498382730 8498382734. 2010
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