Kempelen, a senior official of the Austro-Hungarian court of the mid eighteenth century, is committed to the empress herself in six months will be able to create a marvelous machine that will amaze everyone. The machine in question is an automaton that played chess in a masterly way, supposedly without any human intervention that winding the clockwork.
Fiction based on historical fact, the Kempelen automaton survived its creator and came to defeat Napoleon Bonaparte. This is the first work of Löhr and the proof is that his prose lacks sufficient maturity. The book is very well documented and well structured, but lacks pace. Also starting at the end and takes away a lot of excitement to the rest of the story. The secrets of the machine is discovered too soon and many of the pages become repetitive and even, at times, tedious. It made me not too long and gets trapped Löhr in history. It is true that the characters are worked and are credible, but this is not: the plot has become bored.
The best of the book is final (thank goodness), it has the dose of emotion from which no development of the novel and the characters bring out the best and worst of themselves. At the end of the story you would have left with the question of whether the characters were real or not, but for the author's epilogue that reveals what parts and what the invented history.
My rating: interesting.
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