by Ian Gibson · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466605366
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«El erotómano» is the biography of collector and bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee written by Ian Gibson, published in hardcover (342 pages, in Spanish).
Gibson reconstructs the double life of Henry Spencer Ashbee, a respectable Victorian family man who secretly collected and cataloged erotic literature. Drawing on his diaries and documents, he traces the portrait of a bibliographer obsessed with eroticism and places him in the social and cultural context of late nineteenth-century England.
This Spanish edition from 2002 includes 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations; the English original, «The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee», appeared in 2001.
For readers of biographies and cultural history and for those interested in bibliographic collecting and Victorian erotic literature.
Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and particularly his work on the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca was banned in Spain under Franco.
