Name: El Monje (in Spanish)
SKU: 53440264
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Author: Matthew G. Lewis
ISBN: 9781494930509

Type

Physical Book

Author

Matthew G. Lewis

Publisher

Createspace

Year

2014

Language

Spanish

Pages

370

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x2 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9781494930509

Synopsis "El Monje (in Spanish)"

De un desarrollo sorprendente, la trama de este libro va de una leyenda que se antoja ingenua a amores escondidos, traiciones familiares, invocaciones demoníacas exitosas y la más brutal violencia. Aquí se recrean escenarios cotidianos de su tiempo. De no ser por la evidente tendencia a lo macabro y sórdido, bien podría leerse como una novela costumbrista, de recreación de la Europa del siglo XVIII. Un tiempo donde los más terribles crímenes se cometían a instancias de los monasterios y la inquisición; donde el verdadero horror daba rienda en el interior de las catacumbas; donde las cofradías religiosas actuaban con impunidad y a escondidas; un tiempo que se parece mucho al actual, por los personajes dispuestos a todo con tal de obtener venganza o satisfacción o, también, de llegar a la mujer amada.

Matthew G. Lewis

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July 9, 1775, London - May 14, 1818, died at sea while returning from a trip to the West Indies
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English playwright and novelist who at the age of nineteen published his masterpiece: _The Monk_, which was so extraordinarily successful that he began to be known as Monk Lewis. Influenced by the novelist Ann Radcliffe and the German literature of his time, _The Monk_ is one of the undisputed peaks of the Gothic novel. The violence, horror, and eroticism fascinated and scandalized society equally at the time. Its pages tell the story of Ambrosio, a supposedly virtuous abbot who is tempted by the devil in the guise of a maiden. H. P. Lovecraft said of it that it is “a masterpiece of true nightmare whose general Gothic elements are seasoned with a host of macabre features.” Lewis wrote other interesting works, such as _The Castle Spectre, Tales of Terror, and Romantic Tales;_ but none achieved the popular recognition of The Monk.

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