The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi

The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi

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Published by Doubleday, 1998, hardcover, 250 pages, condition: as new.

The sixteenth century wasnt named the Age of Exploration in vain A great many great discoveries were made during this fabulous era But they tried to keep one of those discoveries, a very stupendous one, a secret. And only now Federico Andahazi dares to reveal the major mystery.
And, of course, that fair breakthrough concerned the fair sex.
In the Catalogo di tutte le puttane del bordello con il lor prezzo, her name appeared printed in bold letters and her price in even more remarkable numbers: 10 ducats. That is to say, six ducats more expensive than the legendary Lenna Grifa. In the catalog, carefully compiled and edited for discerning travelers, no mention was made of her eyes green as emeralds, nor of her nipples hard as almonds whose diameter and texture might be compared to the petals of a flower if ever there were such petals of the diameter and texture of Mona Sofia's nipples. Nor did it make mention of her firm animal thighs, as if rounded on a lathe, nor of her voice like crackling wood. It made no mention of her tiny hands that seemed hardly large enough to encircle a male organ, nor of her diminutive mouth whose cavity one would have thought unable to receive a fully engorged member. Nor did it mention her whorish talents, capable of arousing even an enfeebled old man.

When the postmodern author decides to have a literary outing into the history, the result is usually not too complimentary for the historic science. But the book is usually a great fun to read. And so it is with The Anatomist a tale of the grand anatomic discovery.
Even Sigmund Freud might be jealous.  
O my America, my new-found-land!" Mateo Renaldo Colombo (or Columbus, to give him his English name) might have written in his De re anatomica. \n\nIt is no accident that Federico Andahazi draws a parallel between his Renaissance hero, the anatomist Mateo Colombo, and the explorer Christopher Columbus. It is the conceit of his first novel, The Anatomist (beautifully translated from the Spanish by Alberto Manguel), that both made "equally momentous and disturbing" discoveries. Every schoolchild can tell you what Columbus's was; less well known, perhaps, is that of his countryman and fellow "explorer". "Mateo's America is less distant and infinitely smaller than Christopher's; in fact, it's not much larger than the head of a nail." In short, Mateo Renaldo Colombo discovered the Amor Veneris, the clitoris. \n\nAndahazi makes much of this discovery, not to mention its discoverer: "The discovery of Mateo Colombo's America was, all things considered, an epic counterpointed by an elegy. Mateo Colombo was as fierce and heartless as Christopher. Like Christopher (to use an appropriate metaphor) he was a brutal colonizer who claimed for himself all rights to the discovered land, the female body." Certainly women readers will view this description with at least as much irony as Native Americans regard that other "discovery" of a land they had known about all along.
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