Name: Monkton el Loco (Biblioteca Wilkie Collins) (in Spanish)
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Author: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9788476390207

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Monkton el Loco (Biblioteca Wilkie Collins) (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Montesinos

Year

1985

Language

Spanish

Pages

108

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8476390203

ISBN13

9788476390207

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Monkton el Loco (Biblioteca Wilkie Collins) (in Spanish)"

Conocido universalmente gracias a sus dos grandes obras, "La dama de blanco" y "La piedra lunar" (ambas editadas por Montesinos), Wilkie Collins es autor de un buen número de novelas y relatos. "Monkton el loco" es una de sus piezas fantásticas más perfectas. Escrita en un tono a la vez reposado y tenso, rítmico y escueto estilo común a toda su obra y que ha desatado las alabanzas de Borges, Eliot y Swinburne, esta breve obra maestra narra la angustia y desventura de un joven abocado a la muerte, o mejor dicho, a la ambigüedad de una muerte probable. Todo podría reducirse, para Alfred Monkton, al padecimiento de una fuerte neurosis obsesiva. Pero una sucesión de pequeños elementos instaura esa duda abismal ante lo desconocido que caracteriza a los mejores ejemplos de un género, el fantástico, en el que "Monkton el loco" se inscribe con todos los honores.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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