Dan Brown finally returns to bookshops with "Origin", a new addictive thriller. For those who don't know him yet, Robert Langdon is probably the most famous professor on the planet. His investigations around the world tell of a man who, in order to pursue the truth of the facts, always and unexpectedly stumbles into an epoch-making revelation.
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He is a passionate teacher of symbolism, art and religious iconography. Directly from Harvard, he has the natural predisposition to find himself involved in crimes, thefts, missions of global scope. As the custodian of the greatest secrets ever revealed, he deserves countless medals for the load of responsibility Dan Brown's creative mind assigns him every time. Those who know him are lost in his reasoning. He lives with him the adrenaline of chance, he loses his way only to find himself at the last page more confused than before.
But this is not Robert Langdon's usual investigation, it is the philosophical crime par excellence.
A universal message
A surprise invitation comes into the daily life of the professor. At an event to be held at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Langdon is asked to attend one of the world's most astonishing live truths ever. Together with many other guests, it is the "discovery" itself, the billionaire futurologist Edmond Kirsch, who is summoning him and many other guests. The 40-year-old avant-garde is an icon of the contemporary technological revolution, of unparalleled scientific progress that facilitates and slowly isolates man, who is a social animal par excellence.
Digital inventions, the new high-tech paradigm, the logic of algorithms:
It's no coincidence that Kirsch is a fervent supporter of the brightest of atheisms. Robert, his friend has known this well for about twenty years, and it is precisely this that feeds not only his curiosity but also anxieties and fears. What is the content of your message? What will the consequences be? Why bring together so many experienced personalities in one of the temples of culture?
And not only that. Why did Kirsch, son of technology, choose to speak to the whole world? In fact, a direct streaming and connection with social networks will allow everyone, anywhere in the world, to become the new depositaries of a universal discovery.
Science or Religion?
A step backwards. Origin opens in the middle of a strange encounter, in the Montserrat monastery in Catalonia. The reader is at your fingertips with the visionary Kirsch and three illustrious representatives of religious faiths. It is they who have the privilege of feeling first, because Edmond's message will forever revolutionize the traditional concept of faith.
Like those who, by chance, come across an interesting and secret conversation, the reader is in the same room as the truth from the first chapter. The sniff, she perceives its gravity, yet she doesn't know what troubled path awaits her before looking at it in the face. On the most beautiful the scene stops, then the game truly start.
If someone already knows, someone else is going to know. Al Guggenheim are all in fibrillation, digital users increase. A presentation projected onto the ceiling leaves everyone speechless. Where do we come from? Images follow one after another that trace the historical-scientific path of humanity, discoveries, mysteries and unresolved questions. Where do we go? Everything is now clear. Kirsch has discovered something that has to do with the origin of human beings, the meaning of their existence, the faith they trust in where science has not yet arrived with its unquestionable answers.
Friends, I know that you are here because I have promised to reveal a discovery to you, and I thank you for having had the patience to follow me in this small preamble. Now let us free ourselves from the prejudices of our old way of thinking. The time has come to share the excitement of discovery.
Something goes wrong. A murder suddenly crystallizes the truth that everyone, now almost frightened, was waiting for. A bullet suspends the show and opens a path of escapes, investigations, threatening assassins. At the same time, a shadow, first of a man and then of an entire institution, moves silently. He fills his hands with blood, pushes away with violence, fights with every weapon at his disposal the onset of continuous whipping of truths hidden in time.
When the goal is a question
Robert Langdon is forced to flee. His travel companion will be Ambra Vidal, the elegant director of the Bilbao Museum and girlfriend of the Prince of Spain who, together with Kirsch, oversaw the organization of her presentation. Once again, as often happens in Dan Brown's novels, the theme of escape becomes central. Move away to save and rediscover in that distance
