Melvill
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Melvill

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eBook - ePub

Melvill

About this book

Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award

Winner of the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize, USA & Canada

A dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin, and his most beautiful journey—the crossing on foot of the frozen Hudson River. His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final, hallucinated words.

Could the work of Herman Melville—masterful author, misunderstood, far too ahead of his time, and considered crazy and dangerous by some critics—have as its source this ultimate paternal legacy?

Questioning the intricacies of fiction, which constantly oscillatates between reality and imagination, Rodrigo Fresán’s approaches the enigma of the literary vocation in a new light. An invented biography, a gothic novel populated by ghosts, and an evocation of a filial love, Melvill contains all the talent, humor, and immense culture found in the other great works from one of Spanish literature's most ambitious writers.

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Information

Publisher
Open Letter Books
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781960385161
eBook ISBN
9781960385239
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. I. The Father of the Son
  7. II. Glaciology; Or, the Transparency of the Ice
  8. III. The Son of the Father
  9. Your Names; Or, the Acknowledgements
  10. About the Authors

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