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Hopeful Monsters (Paperback)

by Nicholas Mosley (Author), Sven P. Birkerts (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 550 pages
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press; 1 edition (Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1564782425
  • ISBN-13: 978-1564782427
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 14 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars How much can you put into one book., 6 Sep 2000
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Nicholas Mosley, son of Oswald has created one of the most knowledge filled books this reviewer has ever encountered. "Hopeful Monsters" takes the reader from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the second through the love story between the daughter of a German physicist and the son of an English biologist.

The couple meet in a Bavarian forest when they are in their teens but do not come together really for almost twenty years. The book is structured with them writing to each other once they have reunited and giving their partner the details of their lives up to that point.

Mosley examines apparent coincidences and interconnectedness of the world. Max's work in biology brings him close the work of Helena's father in physics questioning the objectivity of experiments which are observed. Helena herself comes close to these ideas in her observation of humanity, especially due to her connection to the archly self-conscious politics of both the Nazis and the Communists in inter-war Germany. Her adventures take her to Africa and civil war Spain where she finds herself on the wrong, Nationalist, side.

The hopeful monsters of the title are salamaders that Max uses in his first experiment. In this experiment he, successfully, manages to make lowland salamaders give birth to a highland salamander by introducing them into an ideally beautiful enviroment. This becomes a metaphor for the enviroment that the two lovers will eventually and inevitably create for the children that they adopt.

"Hopeful Monsters" is an extraordinary book which loses a little towards the end when other narrators are introduced. In the book Mosley takes the reader through all the important events in history, biology, physics of the inter-war years intertwining them with a wonderful and believable romance.

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