Melvill

Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award

A dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, hisGrand 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.Hisson,still a child,sitsat the foot of the bed, attentively collectingthesefinal,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-haveasits source this ultimate paternal legacy?

Questioning the intricacies of fiction, which constantly oscillatatesbetween reality and imagination, Rodrigo Fresn'sapproaches 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,Melvillcontains all the talent, humor, and immense culture found in the other great works from one of Spanish literature's most ambitious writers.