Name: Melvill
Price: 318.53 ZAR
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Author: Rodrigo Fresán
ISBN: 9781960385161

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rodrigo Fresán

Translated by

Will Vanderhyden

Publisher

Open Letter

Language

English

Pages

360

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781960385161

Synopsis "Melvill"

Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book AwardA dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin, and his most beautiful journey--the crossing on foot of the frozen Hudson River. His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final, hallucinated words.Could the work of Herman Melville--masterful author, misunderstood, far too ahead of his time, and considered crazy and dangerous by some critics--have as its source this ultimate paternal legacy?Questioning the intricacies of fiction, which constantly oscillatates between reality and imagination, Rodrigo Fresán's approaches the enigma of the literary vocation in a new light. An invented biography, a gothic novel populated by ghosts, and an evocation of a filial love, Melvill contains all the talent, humor, and immense culture found in the other great works from one of Spanish literature's most ambitious writers.

Rodrigo Fresán

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Rodrigo Fresán was born in Buenos Aires in 1963 and has lived in Barcelona since 1999. He is the author of the books Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, Mantra (Nuevo Talento Fnac Award 2002), Jardines de Kensington (Lateral Narrative Award 2004, finalist Premio Fundación José Manuel Lara), El fondo del cielo (Locus Magazine Favorite Speculative Fiction in Translation Novel 2018, USA) and the trilogy La Parte Contada, consisting of La parte inventada (Best Translated Book Award 2018, USA), La parte soñada, and La parte recordada

The jury of the Best Translated Book Award praised La parte inventada with the citation: "Fresán is a master". In 2017, Fresán received the Prix Roger Caillois in France for his entire body of work for being an "atypical, transgressive, and unavoidable writer"

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