Couto castillo bernardo (9 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Ref. L123332. 22x14. 253 pág. Ilustraciones en blanco y negro. Colección: Serie Diecinueve, 1. El volumen ofrece una cronología y un apéndice de la edición facsimilar de algunos cuentos ilustrados por Julio Ruelas. Cuentos Serie Diecinueve 253 pág. Cuentos|Literatura|Narrativa.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Greek mythology, the asphodel is a flower associated with death; the souls of ordinary mortals are sent to the Asphodel Meadows, vast fields of the underworld. In the twelve stories of Asphodels, Mexican author Bernardo Couto Castillo (1879-1901), a cult figure in Mexico due to his short life and French-influenced Decadent writings, explores death in its many varieties, from Lady Death wandering the streets of the city in merciless search of her next victim, to a hypochondriac who goes mad out of fear of death, to an ultra-refined killer turning to murder due to the beauty of its 'symphony in White and Red', to the extraordinary final metaphysical account of the torture of a soul. Although asphodels do not make a single appearance in this collection, they are like death itself: invisible, everywhere. Asphodels, originally published in 1897, was the only book to appear in the author's lifetime. Presented here for the first time in English, in a superb translation by Jessica Sequeira, it will be sure to gratify lovers of Decadent fiction, horror and modernismo.…

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