Name: Las Encantadas (in Spanish)
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Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9788496756571

Type

Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

Publisher

Berenice

Year

2008

Language

Spanish

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8496756572

ISBN13

9788496756571

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Las Encantadas (in Spanish)"

Las encantadas es un libro delicioso firmado por el maestro Herman Melville y compuesto por diez fragmentos descriptivos de las islas Galápagos. Una pequeña obra maestra queLas encantadas es un libro delicioso firmado por el maestro Herman Melville y compuesto por diez fragmentos descriptivos de las islas Galápagos. Una pequeña obra maestra que posee una especial capacidad de fascinación sobre los lectores contemporáneos y que ahora presentamos en una nueva traducción y con un extenso prólogo a cargo del traductor y especialista David Cruz. Melville encontró en estas islas un escenario ideal donde proyectar o extraer de ellas temas que le obsesionaban de manera pertinaz. El archipiélago volcánico –apenas habitado por el ser humano, en el que la aridez del paisaje natural se veía tan sólo moteado por las aves y unas cuantas especies de reptiles, y donde tienen su morada los animales que le dan nombre– era para Melville algo así como el Infierno de Milton hecho roca. Tenía ante él, por un lado, un espacio natural que se acomodaba a su imaginación, a su nihilista e irónica concepción de la realidad, y, por otro, un laboratorio de pruebas donde podía comprobar cómo es la vida en el margen o el extremo, pues allí no había nada.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (New York, August 1, 1819-New York, September 28, 1891)1 was an American writer, novelist, poet, and essayist from the American Renaissance period. Among his most famous novels are Typee (1846), based on his experiences in Polynesia, and the novel Moby Dick (1851),1 considered his masterpiece and a classic of world literature

Between 1853 and 1855, he published a series of stories in Putnam Magazine, most of which were collected in The Piazza Tales, including two of Melville's most important narratives: the story Bartleby, the Scrivener and the novella Benito Cereno. Also featured is the story The Encantadas, consisting of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands linked by a single narrator. In 1857, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, also known as The Confidence-Man, was the last prose fiction work he published. Seeking financial stability, he abandoned writing, accepting a position as a customs inspector

In his later years, in which he also had to endure the death of two of his brothers as well as the death of two of his sons, Clarence, from tuberculosis, and Malcolm from a possible suicide, as well as the death of another of his sons at thirty-five years old, Stanwix Melville, he dedicated himself to writing poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, from 1866, is a poetic reflection on the Civil War and Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, a fictional epic poem, published in 1876. The novel Billy Budd, which he left unfinished and was posthumously published in London in 1924, is considered one of the most significant works of American literature.

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