Melvill

by Rodrigo Fresán

Overview

Un padre morente, in preda alla febbre e al delirio, racconta la sua giovinezza, il suo Grand Tour, i palazzi veneziani popolati da figure affascinanti e malvagie, la sua rovina e il suo viaggio più bello: la traversata a piedi del fiume Hudson ghiacciato. Un figlio, ancora bambino, siede ai piedi del letto, ascoltando attentamente queste ultime parole allucinate.

L'opera di Herman Melville, un autore magistrale che fu incompreso, troppo avanti rispetto al suo tempo e giudicato pazzo e pericoloso da alcuni critici dell'epoca, potrebbe avere la sua origine in questo ultimo lascito del padre?

Rodrigo Fresán getta uno sguardo nuovo sull'enigma della vocazione letteraria, esplorando i meandri della narrativa, che oscilla costantemente tra realtà e immaginazione. Melvill è allo stesso tempo una biografia, spesso inventata, un romanzo gotico popolato di fantasmi e un'evocazione dell'amore filiale, che racchiude tutto il talento, l'umorismo e l'immensa cultura del grande scrittore argentino.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835728238
Publisher:	MONDADORI
Publication date:	08/29/2023
Sold by:	ARNOLDO MONDADORI - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Rodrigo Fresán is the author of eleven works of fiction, including Kensington Gardens, Mantra, The Invented Part, winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award, and its sequels, The Dreamed Part and The Remembered Part, and, most recently, Melvill. A self-professed “referential maniac,” his works incorporate many elements from science fiction (Philip K. Dick in particular) alongside pop culture and literary references. According to Jonathan Lethem, “he’s a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.” In 2017, he received the Prix Roger Caillois awarded by PEN Club France every year to both a French and a Latin American writer.

Will Vanderhyden received an MA in Literary Translation Studies from the University of Rochester. He has translated fiction by Carlos Labbé, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Juan Marsé, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Rodrigo Fresán, and Elvio Gandolfo. He received NEA and Lannan fellowships to translate another of Fresán’s novels, The Invented Part.

Editorial Reviews

"A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room."—Jonathan Lethem

"Rodrigo Fresán is the new star of Latin American literature. . . . There is darkness in him, but it harbors light within it because his prose—aimed at bygone readers—is brilliant."—Enrique Vila-Matas

"I've read few novels this exciting in recent years. Mantra is the novel I've laughed with the most, the one that has seemed the most virtuosic and at the same time the most disruptive."—Roberto Bolaño

"Rodrigo Fresán is a marvelous writer, a direct descendant of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, but with his own voice and of his own time, with a fertile imagination, daring and gifted with a vision as entertaining as it is profound."—John Banville

"With pop culture cornered by the forces of screen culture, says Fresán (knowing the risk to his profile of 'pop writer,' even coming out himself to discuss it), there's nothing left but to be classic. That's the only way to keep on writing."—Alan Pauls

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