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portada Zanoni o el Secreto de los Inmortales (in Spanish)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2014
Language
Spanish
Pages
468
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9788494745843
Edited in
España
Edition No.
2017

Zanoni o el Secreto de los Inmortales (in Spanish)

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (Author) · Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton (Author) · Biblok · Paperback

Zanoni o el Secreto de los Inmortales (in Spanish) - Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

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Synopsis "Zanoni o el Secreto de los Inmortales (in Spanish)"

En los compases iniciales de esta misteriosa novela, su autor confiesa: "...en los juveniles años de mi existencia y de mi vida literaria, tenía yo vivos deseos de conocer el origen y las doctrinas de la extraña secta denominada de los Rosacruces". Esta búsqueda lo llevó a descubrir un manuscrito cifrado cuya interpretación se convirtió en la novela Zanoni. En ella Bulwer-Lytton construye una historia de poderoso trasfondo simbólico en torno a la figura de Zanoni, un nigromante de la Antigua Babilonia que, conocedor del secreto de la inmortalidad, y habiendo logrado conservar la plena juventud a través de los siglos, se enamora al fin perdidamente de Viola Pisani, una bella actriz italiana, en tiempos de la Revolución francesa, y ve cómo su humanidad vencida vuelve a enseñorearse de él hasta poner en peligro su propia vida física y evolución espiritual. Miembro él mismo de la orden, el autor supo combinar magistralmente en esta obra el mensaje de la tradición rosacruciana con una trama apasionante, llena de romanticismo y misterio.
Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
  (Author)
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton (London, 1803 – Torquay, 1873) was a prolific novelist, playwright, and British politician, prominent in the Victorian period. He cultivated various literary genres, including historical novels, Gothic romance, and science fiction. Among his most recognized works is The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), a historical novel set in the ancient Roman city before its destruction by the eruption of Vesuvius. Other notable works include Zanoni (1842), The Haunted and the Haunters (1859), and The Coming Race (1871), also known as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race.

Bulwer-Lytton is remembered for coining famous phrases such as "The pen is mightier than the sword" and for the famous opening "It was a dark and stormy night" in his novel Paul Clifford (1830). His influence endures in literature and popular culture, and his legacy has been the subject of study and revaluation in contemporary literary criticism.
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