Melvill / Rodrigo Fresán.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fresán, Rodrigo, 1963- author.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Fiction.

Melville, Herman.

Melvill, Allan, 1782-1832--Fiction.

Melvill, Allan.

Authors, American--19th century--Fiction.

Authors, American.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

292 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Primera edición

Place of Publication:

Barcelona : Literatura Random House, 2022.

Summary:

"Regístrese y archívese, aunque se prefiera no hacerlo: Es la noche del 10 de diciembre de 1831 y Allan Melvill cruza a pie el congelado río Hudson." A partir de las figuras de Herman Melville y de su padre Allan Melvill --surcando días de infancia junto al lecho de un alucinado y noches de escritor crepuscular que ya no empuña pluma ni arpón-- Melvill sale a la caza del enigma de la siempre huérfana vocación literaria, del legado del estigma familiar, de los navegantes de la ficción y de los náufragos de la realidad.

"Document it and file it, even if it's better not to: It's the night of December 10, 1831, and Allan Melvill is walking across the frozen Hudson River." Based on Herman Melville and his father Allan Melvill--plowing through childhood days at the bedside of a hallucinated man and nights as a twilight writer who no longer wields a pen nor harpoon-- Melvill goes on the hunt for the enigma of the always orphaned literary vocation, for the legacy of family stigma, the steersmen of fiction, and the castaways of reality.

Notes:

Novel about Herman Melville (1819-1891), American writer.

ISBN:

9788439739470

8439739478

OCLC:

1304902737