Name: EL COMODORO. Una novela de la Armada inglesa (Aubrey y Maturin, XVII) (in Spanish)
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Author: Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 9788435060257

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EL COMODORO. Una novela de la Armada inglesa (Aubrey y Maturin, XVII) (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patrick O'Brian

Author

Patrick Karl O'Brien

Publisher

EDHASA

Year

2002

Language

Spanish

Pages

504

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

843506025X

ISBN13

9788435060257

Edited in

España

Synopsis "EL COMODORO. Una novela de la Armada inglesa (Aubrey y Maturin, XVII) (in Spanish)"

Las intrigas políticas. el tráfico de esclavos. las maravillas que oculta África. el amor. la tentación y la melancolía son algunos de los numerosos elementos con los que Patrick O´Brian ha construido un ciclo histórico que ha sido comparado con la obra de James Joyce y Marcel Proust.Las duras condiciones de la vida en un barco durante el siglo XIX y la ilusión por descubrir la aventura en cualquier momento aparecen reflejadas con una fuerza y rigor deslumbrantes. Y a través de las experiencias. las conversaciones y las reflexiones del capitán Jack Aubrey y el doctor y cirujano Stephen Maturin. Patrick O´Brian reconstruye con tanta veracidad como vigor una de las épocas más interesantes de la historia de la Humanidad.La acción de El comodoro transcurre en su mayor parte en tierra. pero O´Brian consigue que. al igual que sus personajes. el lector perciba perfectamente el rumor lejano de un inquietante cañoneo. Napoleón se prepara para invadir Irlanda.

Patrick O'Brian

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Richard Patrick Russ, known as Patrick O'Brian, was a British writer and translator born in Buckinghamshire (not in Ireland, as he claimed) on December 12, 1914, and who died on January 2, 2000 in Dublin, Ireland

Son of a doctor of German origin and an Englishwoman of Irish descent, he was the eighth of a family of nine children. He published his first novel in 1930, when he was a teenager, but did not return to write this genre —although he did publish several stories, biographies, and children's books— until about forty years later, an American publisher suggested he write a work in the line of the late Cecil Scott Forrester, maintaining the genre of the "naval epic" that had made him famous

Following the editor's advice, O'Brian wrote the famous characters Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, who thrived in the environment of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Master and Commander, the first title in the series they starred in, led to the successful film adaptation Master and Commander, which featured Russell Crowe

O'Brian was an excellent translator of French, as evidenced by his translations of Papillon by Henri Charrière and several works by Simone de Beauvoir. A writer jealous of his private life, little was known about his life until the publication of his biography by his stepson, Nikolai Tolstoy.

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