by Susan Sontag · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420428543
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«El amante del volcán» is Susan Sontag's historical novel, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (432 pages, in Spanish).
Set in eighteenth-century Naples, it narrates the relationship between Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma and Lord Nelson, alongside other figures of the era. The novel addresses sex, revolution, destiny, art and the collector's obsession; Sontag offers a feminist view of late eighteenth-century Europe with love as the guiding thread.
Novel originally published in English as 'The Volcano Lover' in 1992; this Alfaguara edition is from 1995 and belongs to the Literaturas collection.
For readers of historical fiction seeking an intellectual and feminist perspective on real eighteenth-century figures, love and art.
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).
