The Nature of Truth
Subtitle: a novel
By: Sergio Troncoso.
Edition: 1st Edition
Series: Latino Voices
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Evanston, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780810119918
Description: Helmut Sanchez is a young researcher in the employ of renowned Yale professor Werner Hopfgartner.  By chance, Helmut discovers a letter written decades ago by his boss mocking guilt over the Holocaust.  Appalled, Helmut digs into the scholar's life and travels to Austria and Italy to uncover evidence of Hopfgartner's hateful past.  Meanwhile, Hopfgartner's colleague and rival, Regina Neumann, wants to reveal the truth about Hopfgartner's sexual liaisons with vulnerable students before the professor's imminent retirement.  Neumann traps Sarah Goodman, an insecure graduate student trying to find her place at Yale, into initiating formal charges of sexual harassment against Hopfgartner.  Soon Helmut's intellectual quest for the truth metamorphoses into a journey of justice and blood- one with unforeseen consequences.  Intelligent and literate, Troncoso's convention-challenging philosophical novel explores how a man of Mexican-German heritage navigates a complex moral universe, and how his experience reveals the differences and links between righteousness and evil in the quest for the truth.