Name: Moby Dick (in Spanish)
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Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9788417244088

Type

Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

Publisher

Mestas Ediciones

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

544

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9788417244088

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Moby Dick (in Spanish)"

Moby Dick es un libro inolvidable que forma parte del imaginario colectivo de varias generaciones de adolescentes y adultos de todo el mundo. Un libro único, épico, grandioso, una... Leer másMoby Dick es un libro inolvidable que forma parte del imaginario colectivo de varias generaciones de adolescentes y adultos de todo el mundo. Un libro único, épico, grandioso, una lectura sublime de la cual podemos extraer mil y una reflexiones, así como varias capas de interpretación, ya que nos encontramos ante una obra que no es una mera historia de aventuras ?aunque lo es?, sino más bien una epopeya en prosa que despliega toda una filosofía de vida a través de una de las plumas más excelsas de la literatura universal, la de Herman Melville, posiblemente el mejor escritor estadounidense del siglo XIX, junto a Edgar Allan Poe y Mark Twain.Un relato extraordinario en el que disfrutaremos de las andanzas que narra Ismael, uno de los tripulantes del ballenero Pequod, en pos de Moby Dick, un gigantesco cachalote blanco que en su día, tiempo atrás, amputó, en un terrible enfrentamiento, la pierna del capitán Ahab, un veterano de los mares, obsesivo, fanático y vengativo, que lleva más de cuarenta años embarcado sin apenas pisar tierra, con una simple idea en la cabeza: aniquilar a Moby Dick.

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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