by Susan Sontag · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408464051
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«El amante del volcán» is the novel by Susan Sontag, published by Planeta in hardcover (377 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Naples between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, around the British ambassador Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma and Admiral Horatio Nelson. Sontag interweaves love, ambition, revolution and the destructive side of power with rich, detailed prose that recreates the atmosphere of the era.
The 377-page hardcover edition is part of Planeta's Clásicos de Nuestro Tiempo collection.
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999).
