Name: El Monje (in Spanish)
SKU: 53440276
Price: 839.00 TWD
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Author: Matthew G. Lewis
ISBN: 9781483946177

Type

Physical Book

Author

Matthew G. Lewis

Publisher

Createspace

Year

2013

Language

Spanish

Pages

308

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781483946177

Synopsis "El Monje (in Spanish)"

Matthew G. Lewis. (1775 - 1818). Escritor, dramaturgo y político británico conocido por Monk Lewis a raíz de su primera obra, El Monje (1796), donde denunciaba la Inquisición española y que le hizo popular. El Monje, de buena acogida entre la mayoría de la población, fue muy criticado por obsceno entre los intelectuales británicos, lo que obligó al autor a dulcificar la segunda edición de 1798, publicada cuando ya era miembro del Parlamento. Es una novela gótica donde se ironiza sobre la hipocresía religiosa. Lord Byron y el Marqués de Sade dieron su visto bueno a la novela en sus correspondientes escritos. El Monje fue reivindicada por André Breton y Antonin Artaud como la mejor novela gótica y uno de los mayores logros del Romanticismo.

Matthew G. Lewis

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July 9, 1775, London - May 14, 1818, died at sea while returning from a trip to the West Indies
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English playwright and novelist who at the age of nineteen published his masterpiece: _The Monk_, which was so extraordinarily successful that he began to be known as Monk Lewis. Influenced by the novelist Ann Radcliffe and the German literature of his time, _The Monk_ is one of the undisputed peaks of the Gothic novel. The violence, horror, and eroticism fascinated and scandalized society equally at the time. Its pages tell the story of Ambrosio, a supposedly virtuous abbot who is tempted by the devil in the guise of a maiden. H. P. Lovecraft said of it that it is “a masterpiece of true nightmare whose general Gothic elements are seasoned with a host of macabre features.” Lewis wrote other interesting works, such as _The Castle Spectre, Tales of Terror, and Romantic Tales;_ but none achieved the popular recognition of The Monk.

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