Name: Moby Dick (in Spanish)
Price: 837.00 TWD
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Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9788418215728

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Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

Publisher

Astiberri Ediciones

Synopsis "Moby Dick (in Spanish)"

La obsesiva y enloquecida lucha del capitán Ahab contra la gran ballena blanca no solo es un clásico de la literatura, sino también uno de los últimos grandes mitos del imaginario contemporáneo. Bill Sienkiewicz, aquí en la cúspide de su evolución artística, exalta su aliento épico y simbólico pintando un descenso hacia el abismo donde heroísmo y locura acaban confundiéndose irremediablemente y transmitiendo con viveza la oscura tragedia que se produce cuando, para vencer al mal, se sucumbe ante el mismo mal. El grafista estadounidense, con sus composiciones en tonos especialmente oscuros, explota a la perfección el aspecto angustioso de la obra y, en particular, la locura asesina del capitán Ahab, sin olvidar la inmensidad del océano y su furia cuando se desata. Por supuesto, los retratos de la tripulación del Pequod son extremadamente fieles a la esencia de cada personaje, lo que nos permite redescubrir las inmensas cualidades literarias de la obra original. La publicación por Astiberri de esta adaptación del clásico de Herman Melville, realizada por Bill Sienkiewicz hace ahora 30 años, pone en evidencia el valor de una obra que conserva toda su potencia visual.

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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