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Title: Regarding Roderer by Guillermo Martinez ISBN: 0-312-11374-9 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Impeccable
Comment: Charming and intelligent story. This kind of writing remembers me the precision of a Swiss clock, where the end tells 12 o'clock.

Rating: 3
Summary: An overwhelming genius within 90 pages
Comment: This intense novel is the history of the friendship between two gifted boys. One of them, the narrator, has always been the brightest in his class. He orients himself wide and takes knowledge from the world surrounding him. The other, Gustavo Roderer, is the new boy in class that fascinates and frightens with another type of intelligence: more extreme and sweeping, more introspective og mystical. Roderer balances on the hazy line between lunacy and wisdom. He seeks the root of the knowledge, moving in the icy landscapes of thoughts stilbb burning with fire. The narrator tries to incorporate more pragmatic sense into his new friend and the narrator's sister gives her love to Roderer, but he is already lost. It's true that you see the tragic end of the book almost from the start but it's not because of a fatalistic presence in the novel more because of the narrators reciting voice through it all that doesn't need to hide anything from the reader. It is a hard, sharp and precise vocabulary that reminded me more of contemporary electronic music that is clean and machinelike, observing cynically the processes that takes place before ones eyes. The book also draws comparisons to Mann's "Dr. Faustus" with its main protagonist beyond help from others, lost in the fervent search for something higher. ***(*) on the barometer

Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting treatment of genius.
Comment: Gustav Roderer is an unconventional genuis. His understanding of mathematics transcends the conscious realm as he drops out and pursues an elusive deeper understanding of it all.

This is the story of two young geniuses - Roderer and the Narrator - from Argentina who, despite their differences, become friends and confidants. While the Narrator follows a normal course in pursuit of more kwoledge, the other falls deeper into a world only he understands. Roderer knows that humankind's efforts to date fall short of what it will take to reach the next step in the evolution of our understanding and he is within reach of a new level to our consciousness.

As he is ravaged by disease he tries to share what he is beginning to grasp with his friend the Narrator before the end that he knows is near comes.