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El anatomista

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La novela que consagró a Federico Andahazi como una de las voces más importantes de la literatura argentina contemporánea.

En la Italia renacentista, Mateo Realdo Colón, un prestigioso anatomista, se enamora de Mona Sofía, la cortesana más codiciada de Venecia. Esa pasión imposible lo conduce a un territorio la exploración del cuerpo y el alma de la mujer, con la obsesión de revelar el secreto del deseo y el amor. En su búsqueda, Colón se atreve a cruzar todos los límites. Experimenta con prostitutas, disecciona cadáveres y llega a un descubrimiento tan perturbador como el Amor Veneris, "su dulce tierra hallada". Como su homónimo Cristóbal, también él encontró su Amé un continente nuevo y diminuto, la llave capaz de abrir el corazón de las mujeres. Convencido de la trascendencia de su hallazgo, Colón intenta hacerlo público, pero pronto se enfrenta al poder implacable de la Inquisición. La pasión se transforma en riesgo y el saber, en una herejía capaz de costarle la vida. Atrapado entre la ciencia, el amor y el Santo Oficio, Mateo Colón deberá elegir qué precio está dispuesto a pagar por la verdad. Con El anatomista , Federico Andahazi recrea con maestría y audacia el clima de una época en la que el conocimiento podía condenar a la hoguera, y el placer convertirse en el mayor de los crímenes.

283 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2025

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Federico Andahazi

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Federico Andahazi is the son of Bela Andahazi, Hungarian poet and psychoanalyst, and Juana Merlín. During his adolescence, he began to read the classical Argentine and universal authors. He used to escape from school, that reflected the oppressive military dictatorship ruler, to meet with friends in bookstores and bars on Corrientes Avenue, emblematic place of Buenos Aires culture.

It was at this time when he began writing his first stories. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology (Universidad de Buenos Aires); he practiced the psychoanalysis a few years, while he was working on his short stories.

In 2008, Andahazi published his first book of nonfiction, Pecar como Dios manda, Sexual History of Argentines. The essay runs in an hypothesis through all his work: you cannot understand the history of a country if you don’t know the history of sex that gestured it.

With a prose that does not forget the novelist, the author conducted this first volume in an exhaustive investigation that starts from the original cultures and reaches the May Revolution.

Federico Andahazi currently is working on the following volumes of the sexual history of the Argentines and in various fiction projects.

His work has the recognition of the critical all over the world. His books are the subject of many reviews and studies.

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