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by Alberto Manguel · · 105 pages
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En 'Stevenson bajo las palmeras', Alberto Manguel explora la vida y obra de Robert Louis Stevenson en Samoa. A través de una narrativa que entrelaza ficción y realidad, Manguel examina temas de colonialismo, identidad y la búsqueda de significado en un entorno exótico. La novela ofrece una perspectiva única sobre la relación entre el autor y su entorno, así como una reflexión sobre la condición humana.

Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."