by William Beckford · EDICIONES SIRUELA, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485876198
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«Vathek» is the gothic novel by William Beckford, published by Ediciones Siruela in paperback (155 pages, in Spanish).
In his quest to obtain supernatural powers, the caliph Vathek descends into an underground world of splendors and talismans, an imaginary hell of great force. A pioneering work that fuses oriental fascination with the gothic novel.
1984 edition, part of the La Biblioteca de Babel collection (no. 10), with selection and prologue by Jorge Luis Borges and translation by Guillermo Carnero.
Recommended for fans of the gothic novel and eighteenth-century classics.
William Thomas Beckford was a British writer and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner. Beckford was the son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, the daughter of George Hamilton. He served as a Member of Parliament for Wells in 1784–1790 and Hindon in 1790–1795 and 1806–1820. Beckford is best known for writing the 1786 Gothic novel Vathek, for building Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire and Beckford's Tower in Bath, and for his extensive art collection.
