The Confusion (novel)
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The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle.
The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are fused together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads through The Confusion. This is the only volume of the Baroque Cycle that is so confused; the novels contained in the other two volumes are read in order.
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Main characters
Other characters
- Dappa - Nigerian, gallery slave, sailor aboard Minerva.
- Enoch Root
- Moseh de la Cruz - galley slave, Spanish Jew.
- Vrej Esphanian - galley slave
- Mr. Foot - galley slave
- Èdouard de Gex - Jesuit fanatic
- Gabriel Goto - galley slave, Jesuit priest from Japan.
- Lothar von Hacklheber - German banker obsessed with alchemy
- Jeronimo - galley slave, a vile but high-born Spaniard.
- Nyazi - galley slave, camel-trader of the Upper Nile.
- Otto van Hoek - galley slave, captain of the Minerva.
- Yevgeny the Raskolnik - galley slave
- Bonaventure Rossignol - French cryptologist.
- Danny Shaftoe - son of Jack Shaftoe
- Jimmy Shaftoe - son of Jack Shaftoe
Editions
- ISBN 0060523867: First hardcover edition, released April, 2004.
External links
- Metaweb intermediate page (http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Stephenson:Neal:The_Confusion)
- Wired article (http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63050,00.html)
- Salon article (http://www.salon.com/books/int/2004/04/21/stephenson/index_np.html)