by Susan Sontag · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422659761
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«El amante del volcán» is the historical novel by Susan Sontag, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (445 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows William Hamilton, a British diplomat in eighteenth-century Naples, and his fascination with Vesuvius. Susan Sontag recreates the European Enlightenment milieu from real historical figures, blending love, passion and obsession with artistic and scientific interest in volcanoes.
The translation is by Marta Pessarrodona; the English original, «The Volcano Lover», was published in 1992.
A read for those who enjoy historical fiction and the literary vision of Susan Sontag.
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).
