Melvill

By: Rodrigo Fresan, Will Vanderhyden (Translator)

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Paperback | 8 October 2024

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360 Pages

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Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award

Winner of the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize, USA & Canada

A dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin, and his most beautiful journey-the crossing on foot of the frozen Hudson River. His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final, hallucinated words.

Could the work of Herman Melville-masterful author, misunderstood, far too ahead of his time, and considered crazy and dangerous by some critics-have as its source this ultimate paternal legacy?

Questioning the intricacies of fiction, which constantly oscillatates between reality and imagination, Rodrigo Fresn's approaches the enigma of the literary vocation in a new light. An invented biography, a gothic novel populated by ghosts, and an evocation of a filial love,Melvill contains all the talent, humor, and immense culture found in the other great works from one of Spanish literature's most ambitious writers.

Industry Reviews

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

"Rodrigo Fres?n 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 Bola?o

"Rodrigo Fres?n 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 Fres?n (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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