The anatomist blurbs

An innovative work of fiction. This is one of those rare books that come along not very often. It's provocative, and has well-researched subject matter.

The New York Times

I red it in one shot, I love it first but then I thought: what is it, boldness or insolence?

Norman Mailer

Metaphysic arguments are combined with surprise facts that could be found in a detective and suspense novel.

Le Figaro

Federico Andahazi has taken some licences regarding his historical searches. He leads us, especially, to an erudite, erotic, philosophic and also a very ironic fantasy.

Le Nouvel Observateur (Francia)

The Argentinean Federico Andahazi weaves a nice love story from a real character live.

Agence France-Presse (Francia)

“A fascinating book. The way Andahazi communicates the sense of exploration and possibility in Renaissance science, and the inextricable links with philosophy and religión are extremely effective. Overall, The Anatomist is gripping, a pleasure t oread, and a very fine novel.”

Iain Pears, author of An instance of the fingerpost

“With The Anatomist, Andahazi deftly mines that delicious vein of wit and sensuality that runs from Boccacio to Fellini, while slyly dissecting one of man‘s oldest obsessions: a woman‘s pleasure.”

Laura Esquivel, author of Like water for chocolate

Federico Andahazi has built a passionate novel based on the story of one of the wisest Renascence doctors of. He has portrayed that age not only describing its customs but its perverse system of thoughts. The author gives a constant rhythm to the tale and to the implacable domain of intrigue – without talking about the wit and irony – that turn The anatomist and its author, into a surprising and welcomed revelation.

La República (Colombia).

Even the humblest book seller of the VIII Book Fair knew that The anatomist would be a huge success. But what none of them thought – neither the Relumé Dumará publishing house –was that the selling rhythm of the book, by the Argentinean Federico Andahazi, would be so good: In twenty days the first edition of 10 thousand copies was sold, something unthinkable and rare for the history of the little publishing house.

Diario de Pernambuco (Brasil)

History and fiction are mixed up with real skill by Federico Andahazi, who could weave with his clever literature and irony an excellent novel.

Venevisión (Venezuela)

Even though it is situated in XVI Century in Venice, the novel The anatomist by Federico Andahazi couldn’t be more contemporaneous regarding its cleverness, its irony and its topics: hypocrisy, banning and sexual nature.

Based on a real fact, The anatomist is a totally fascinating trip to Italian Renaissance, as evocative of times and places as Umberto Eco work. Above all, it’s a bold novel which reveals not only the actual social hypocrisy but the sexual prejudgments and taboos that are still among us, since 400 hundred years ago. Brightly traduced by the Spanish Alberto Manguel, The anatomist introduces to the American readers a new writer of forceful skill and subversive instinct.

Amazon.com

(The anatomist) Written with more than a wink to Gabriel García Marquez, the novel flows with a dreamy prose and with very frequent sublime images.
The anatomist is from Magic realism school and has a certain dark comedy with some reminiscences to Gabriel García Marquez and Salman Rushdie in The Moor’s Last sigh.

Frank Magazine (Inglaterra)

The anatomist is the final consecration of an Argentinean contemporary novelist.
Good for The anatomist that surely will have many readers able to admire its author talent.

Sergio Mejía Echavarría, El colombiano (Colombia)

The anatomist recreates the conflict between religious moral and science amorality, in a moment in which theological world stills is supported by the terrible powers of the revealed truth and the still more terrible of “policed estate” imposed by inquisition. Andahazi has known how to enter in that conflict of that time.
The novelistic genre, which is the story related in images and behaviours, metaphor or even transgression, gets in this rich tale the building tone of a play that searches in the origins of pleasure.

Oscar Collazos, Tinta fresca (Colombia)

Premio Fundación Fortabat 1996

The anatomist does not contribute to exalt the highest values of human spirit.

“Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat