OMU

OMU

UN RELATO DE AVENTURAS EN LOS MARES DEL SUR

HERMAN MELVILLE

$650.00
IVA incluido
Agotado
Editorial:
ALBA
Materia
NOVELAS
ISBN:
978-84-89846-98-2
Idioma:
Castellano

«Omú» es la segunda novela de Melville, después de «Taipí», sobre los Mares del Sur. «Omú» fue el libro que impulsó a Stevenson a viajar a aquellas latitudes y que D. H. Lawrence saludó como «Melville en su vena más alegre». Una travesía azarosa a bordo de un ballenero, un periodo de cautividad en tierra bajo la benigna vigilancia de un gigante tahitiano, un viaje a la isla Imeeo entre nativos hospitalarios, colonos indulgentes y aterradores misioneros forman algunos de los episodios de esta obra. Herman Melville nació en Nueva York en 1819. En 1841 se embarcó en un ballenero que abandonó para vivir en las Islas Marquesas junto auna tribu caníval. De sus viajes surgieron obras como «Taipí» (1846), «Omú» (1847), «Mardi» (1849), «Redburn» (1849), «Chaqueta blanca» (1850) y «Moby Dick» (1851).

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