Name: Omú (in Spanish)
SKU: 1021982
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Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9788489846982

Type

Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

Publisher

Alba

Language

Spanish

Pages

440

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14 cm

ISBN

8489846987

ISBN13

9788489846982

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Omú (in Spanish)"

Omú (1847), segunda novela de Herman Melville, empieza donde termina Taipí y forma junto a ella su díptico –de fondo autobiográfico –sobre los Mares del Sur. Éste fue el libro que impulsó a Stevenson a viajar a aquellas latitudes y que D.H Lawrence saludó como un «Mellville en su vena más alegre». Las peripecias del protagonista en el extraño universo de Tahití y las Islas Sociedad son hasta cierto punto de corte picaresco y parecen celebrar el vagabundeo y la indolencia de «un caminante feliz». Una travesía azarosa a bordo de un ballenero que acaba en un motín «de brazos caídos», un período de cautividad en tierra bajo la benigna vigilancia de un gigante tahitiano, un viaje a la isla Imeeo entre nativos hospitalarios, colonos indulgentes y aterradores misioneros forman, con su clímax irónico en una recepción airada en la corte de la extravagante reina Pomerea, algunos de los episodios de un relato donde las aventuras rara vez son gloriosas y los personajes nunca reclaman el nombre de héroes. El Melville cargado de responsabilidad histórica, que busca documentar la diversidad de la naturaleza y del género humano, también está aquí, junto con el hombre que ya empieza a ver, tras los designios del destino, una mano absurda, si no torpe, que se mueve sin rumbo y tal vez sin necesidad.

Traducción: Ana Poljak

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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