by John Updike · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429748000
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In this novel, John Updike narrates the story of Gertrude and Claudius, the kings of Denmark, just before the start of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. Updike recreates Gertrude's childhood, her marriage to King Hamlet, and her love affair with her husband's brother, all in an environment of pagan barbarism that anticipates the humanism and empiricism of the Renaissance. This modern recreation of a medieval narrative defends the central couple of the story, which Shakespeare only hinted at.
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
