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The Intuitionist is a 1999 speculative fiction novel by Colson Whitehead, set in a city of skyscrapers and elevators. It follows Lila Mae Watson, an African American elevator inspector of the Intuitionist school, who investigates a mysterious failure and the idea of the perfect elevator.
1 de ene. de 2001 · A novel about a black female elevator inspector in a parallel universe where elevators are a matter of life and death. She faces a mystery, a conspiracy, and a choice between two opposing philosophies: Empiricism and Intuitionism.
Sinopsis de THE INTUITIONIST. Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats with nineteenth-century pork-barrel politics.
4 de ene. de 2000 · Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's...
4 de ene. de 2000 · A debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad, The Intuitionist is a noir-inflected story of a black female elevator inspector in a city of two factions: Empiricists and Intuitionists. The novel explores themes of morality, politics, and race in a parallel universe where elevators are the key to power and mystery.
Lila Mae is an Intuitionist, with the highest accuracy rate in the department. But when an elevator goes into freefall on her watch, chaos ensues. It’s an election year, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to blame an Intuitionist.
Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae’s watch, chaos ensues.
