Differential Equations

For 15 years, Julian Iragorri worked with the famed Frick Collection, the world-class small museum housed in the Henry Clay Frick House on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The museum’s collection of artwork, drawings, furniture, sculpture, and other objects is truly splendid, demonstrative of the very best the artists and craftsmen of earlier centuries had to offer. A visit to the Frick Collection is frequently described as a step back in time, an escape from the frenetic lifestyle of the city. Enchanted with this magical oasis in the middle of Manhattan, Julian Iragorri helped found the Young Fellows, a collection of younger members who organized fundraising and other events for the collection, and served for several years on the steering committee.

Together with Lou Aronica, Julian Iragorri co-wrote a new novel, Differential Equations, which explores a special time in the life of Alex Soberano. A prodigiously successful New York businessman, Soberano’s personal life is a disaster. In the midst of a nasty divorce, he is incapable of sustaining a relationship of any substance with any woman; his closest female friend is his little niece. While others might seek solace for a few hours by visiting the Frick Collection, Soberano decides to take some time off from his busy professional life.

When Alex Soberano arrives on the west coast, though, he experiences something completely out of the ordinary. Using a literary technique called magical realism, Iragorri and Aronica introduce three characters who are not only strangers to Soberano and the west coast, they also do not belong in the present, instead appearing from decades in the past. It is his dealings with these people from different times and places, and the relationships he forms with them, that provide the novel with its driving force.

Differential Equations has received glowing reviews from readers on various online sites, including goodreads, Amazon, and eBay. A representative review, together with excerpts from the book, is available on www.fictionstudiobooks.com.

New York City Author Julian Iragorri: What Is Magic Realism?

The co-author of Differential Equations, Julian Iragorri intertwines the tales of a successful New York businessman, a South American psychic, a Palestinian diplomat, and an MIT student in an evocative novel. Rich in detail, Julian Iragorri’s Differential Equations also incorporates aspects of magic realism.

A unique narrative strategy, magic realism uses mythical elements in otherwise realistic fiction to help readers gain a deeper perspective into humanity as a whole. Typically associated with Latin American authors, the term magic realism was coined by a German art historian named Franz Roh and an Italian critic named Massimo Bontempelli in the 1920s. Although magic realism likely has been a compositional strategy for centuries, some of the most famous magic realists include more contemporary writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Isabel Allende, all of whom hail from South America.

In Differential Equations, the novel’s magic realism allows the characters to move toward their futures while simultaneously helping readers connect with the characters’ realities. Julian Iragorri’s co-author, Lou Aronica, also used this strategy in his novel Blue. In addition to its literary applications, magic realism is present in fine art and in film.

Julian Iragorri: Novel Differential Equations Receives Critical Acclaim from Readers

Differential Equations, published in 2012 by coauthors Julian Iragorri and Lou Aronica, chronicles the story of New York businessman Alex Soberano as he takes a rare vacation to the West Coast in the midst of intense merger negotiations. Simultaneously, the novel delves into the stories of three individuals scattered throughout time and space, interweaving the four captivating tales to create a tapestry of intrigue, emotion, and humanity.

Readers thus far have hailed the work of Iragorri and Aronica, citing the novel’s masterful character development and surprising plot twists. Differential Equations is the recipient of five-star ratings and numerous positive reader testimonials on Amazon and Goodreads. Despite the novel’s changing perspectives, reviewers report the authors’ skillful handling of the story’s flow.

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Julian Iragorri: Getting Involved As a Friend or Fellow of the Frick Collection

Julian Iragorri is the coauthor of the novel Differential
Equations and a former young fellow of the Frick Collection. Located in
New York City, the Frick Collection is a renowned art museum and
research center that offers visitors a chance to experience Old Master
paintings and prestigious European arts. Named for the famed
industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the museum opened in 1935 in Mr. Frick’s
former home, where it still remains today.

The Frick Collection
extends the opportunity for visitors to support the museum by becoming a
friend or fellow. Membership includes various benefits, such as access
to special programs and “backstage” exhibits. Various members-only
events occur throughout the year to offer added benefit to supporters of
the museum.

There are various levels of membership, including
student, non-resident, individual, and dual. Contributing fellows, or
those who donate in excess of $2,500, have access to private group tours
and other special tiered benefits.

Julian Iragorri: The House of Henry Clay Frick

Like countless other visitors, artists, and supporters, author Julian Iragorri has been charmed and inspired by New York City’s fine art museum and reference library The Frick Collection. A long-time member of the Collection’s Young Fellows Steering Committee, Mr. Iragorri has participated in many benefits and other activities in support not only of the museum’s collection of artworks, but of its other special asset: the building itself.

The Frick Collection is housed in the former mansion of Henry Clay Frick, a successful American industrialist, born in 1849, who made his fortune in the coke and steel industry. Having become a serious collector of paintings in his late forties, Frick had his New York City mansion especially designed to accommodate his growing collection of artworks, and to eventually serve as a public gallery. The mansion was completed in 1914; following his death in 1919, Frick left instructions for the house and its works of art to be transformed into a gallery called The Frick Collection.

Today, The Frick Collection joins a host of other internationally renowned museums, such as Paris’ Rodin Museum, which feature a setting as beautiful and important as the collection it contains. Located on Fifth Avenue, the house is set back from the street by a raised garden containing three exquisite magnolia trees. Inside the house, artworks and furnishings are displayed in airy, light-filled rooms, including the Library, the Enamels Room, and the long West Gallery, which features Constable landscapes and Rembrandt portraits. The East Gallery, usually the conclusion of a visit to the Collection, leads visitors to the peaceful skylights, greenery, and fountain of the Garden Court.