by Andrew Delbanco · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432209048
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«Melville» is the biography of Herman Melville written by Andrew Delbanco, published by Seix Barral in paperback (544 pages, in Spanish).
Delbanco approaches the figure of Herman Melville, the writer of Moby Dick, from his experiences at sea to financial setbacks, family losses and the decline of his popularity. The biography also reviews «Bartleby, the Scrivener», Benito Cereno and Billy Budd, and analyzes why Ahab and the white whale remain enduring images.
This volume is number 1 of the Los Tres Mundos collection and this edition includes a prologue by Antonio Muñoz Molina.
For readers of literary biographies and for those who want to understand the context of Moby Dick and Melville's other works.
