Name: Bartleby, el Escribiente: Y Otras Historias (in Spanish)
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Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9788420665764

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Bartleby, el Escribiente: Y Otras Historias (in Spanish)

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Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

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Alianza Editorial

Synopsis "Bartleby, el Escribiente: Y Otras Historias (in Spanish)"

Encuadernación: RústicaColección: LiteraturaPocos personajes tan insólitos en la historia de la literatura como "Bartleby el escribiente" y también pocos relatos más sugerentes que aquel al que da nombre. Marcada por una lógica propia cuyas consecuencias lleva con obstinación hasta el final y que se encarna en una suerte de resistencia pasiva, la singularidad del protagonista es, por otra parte, irreductible. Escritos todos ellos –«Bartleby» incluido – tras el estrepitoso fiasco comercial que supuso la publicación en 1851 de "Moby Dick", el resto de relatos de Herman Melville (1819-1891) que completan el volumen tienen en común, aparte de su intrínseca belleza y singularidad, ese aire de serena y dichosa resignación de quien discierne entre las derivas externas y la firmeza interior. Se trata de «El fracaso feliz», «La veranda» –preciosa parábola acerca de la fantasía con que investimos las apariencias– y dos relatos tardíos acerca de marinos que finalizan sus días varados en tierra: «John Marr» y «Daniel Orme». Traducción de Arturo Agüero Herranz

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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