It seems to me that Sergio de la Pava’s extraordinary novel, A Naked Singularity, was just that – a singularity. Here, with Lost Empress, I’m sure he set out with the best intentions to create something even more spectacular. But instead he ends up, in my view, with /5(24). · Sergio de la Pava’s freewheeling Lost Empress is a novel implicitly born out of these ongoing upheavals. Boldly billing itself as “a protest”, the book takes hold of American football and. From Paterson, New Jersey, to Rikers Island to the streets of New York City, Sergio de la Pava’s Lost Empress introduces readers to a cast of characters unlike any other in modern fiction: dreamers and exiles, immigrants and night-shift workers, a lonely pastor and others on the fringes of society—each with their own impact on the fragile universe they navigate/5(24).
Lost Empress by Sergio de la Pava is a novel so intellectually restless, so stuffed with ideas, that summary is futile. I'll try anyway. I'll try anyway. The aging owner of the Dallas Cowboys is dividing his estate between his two children, and his daughter Nina gets the football team: the Paterson Pork of the Indoor Football Leauge, that is. Sergio De La Pava Pantheon ($) by Chris Via. Sergio De La Pava's first book, A Naked Singularity, cast a long shadow that continues to loom over him like Gödel, Escher, Bach over Douglas R. Hofstadter. Even the synopsis on the back cover of Personae, De La Pava's second novel, is more preoccupied with escaping its towering predecessor than in its own précis, and it seems inevitable. 40 offers from $ Personae: A Novel. Sergio De La Pava. out of 5 stars. Paperback. 42 offers from $ Next page. Start reading Lost Empress: A Novel on your Kindle in under a minute.
That’s one of many conceits de la Pava (Personae, , etc.), New York City public defender by day and shaper of the modern canon by night, plays with in this loopy yarn, which embraces surrealist art, the law, theoretical physics, politics, and just about everything else under the sun. From Paterson, New Jersey, to Rikers Island to the streets of New York City, Sergio de la Pava’s Lost Empress introduces listeners to a cast of characters unlike any other in modern fiction: dreamers and exiles, immigrants and night-shift workers, a lonely pastor and others on the fringes of society - each with their own impact on the fragile universe they navigate. Lost Empress by Sergio de la Pava is a novel so intellectually restless, so stuffed with ideas, that summary is futile. I’ll try anyway. I’ll try anyway. The aging owner of the Dallas Cowboys is dividing his estate between his two children, and his daughter Nina gets the football team: the Paterson Pork of the Indoor Football Leauge, that is.
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