by Susan Sontag · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420429182
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«El amante del volcán» is the historical novel by Susan Sontag, published by Alfaguara in 1996 in paperback (556 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is inspired by the true story of the diplomat and collector Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma, and Admiral Nelson, in eighteenth-century Europe. The narrative combines historical chronicle with a reflection on love, desire, and the attraction to the sublime.
The translation of the original English, The Volcano Lover, is by Marta Pessarrodona; the book belongs to the Alfaguara Bolsillo collection (number 45).
Recommended for readers of historical and literary fiction interested in real characters and eighteenth-century settings.
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).
