In Search of Klingsor. Jorge Volpi
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IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR
Jorge Volpi
Translated by Kristina Cordero
FOR ADRIAN, ELOY, GERARDO, NACHO, AND
PEDRO ANGEL, MY FELLOW CONSPIRATORS
CONTENTS
LAW I: All narratives are written by a narrator
LAW II: All narrators offer one, singular truth
LAW III: All narrators possess a motive for narrating
Hypotheses: From Quantum Physics to Espionage
HYPOTHESIS I: On Bacon’s Childhood and Early Years
HYPOTHESIS II: On Von Neumann and the War
HYPOTHESIS III: On Einstein and Love
HYPOTHESIS IV: On Gödel’s Theory and Marriage
HYPOTHESIS V: On Bacons Departure for Germany
Brief Autobiographical Disquisitions: From Set Theory to Totalitarianism
DISQUISITION I: Infancy and the End of an Era
DISQUISITION II: Youth and Irrationality
DISQUISITION III: The Arithmetics of Infinity
DISQUISITION IV: Liberty and Lust
DISQUISITION V: The Search for the Absolute
LAW I: All crimes are committed by a criminal
LAW II: Every crime is the portrait of a criminal
LAW III: Every criminal possesses a motive
Max Planck, or a Lesson in Faith
Johannes Stark, or a Lesson in Infamy
Werner Heisenberg, or a Lesson in Sadness
Erwin Schrodinger, or a Lesson in Desire
Niels Bohr, or a Lesson in Will
Dialogue 1: On Those Forgotten by History
Dialogue II: On the Rules Governing Chance