by Stephen Marlowe · MONDADORI: NARRATIVA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439715498
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«El coloso» is the historical novel by Stephen Marlowe, published by Mondadori in hardcover (652 pages, in Spanish).
It is a historical novel that recreates the life of Francisco de Goya and the turbulent world around him. The subtitle of this edition, «una novela sobre Goya y su mundo de locura», condenses the focus: the Aragonese painter immersed in an age of meaninglessness, with the court, war and artistic creation as the axes of his story.
The edition, in hardcover with dust jacket, is from the Narrativa Mondadori collection and has 652 pages. The Spanish translation by Jaime Collyer is based on the original English Colossus.
The book is suitable for readers of historical fiction, interested in Goya and in twentieth-century English literature.
Stephen Marlowe was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known for his detective character Chester Drum, whom he created for the 1955 novel The Second Longest Night. Lesser also wrote using the pseudonyms Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, C.H. Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder, and Ellery Queen.
