by Tomás de Mattos · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420483771
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«La fragata de las máscaras» is the historical novel by Tomás de Mattos, published in 1998 by Alfaguara in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
Based on the events that inspired Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, the novel narrates the mutiny of the ship El Juicio through the voices of the Black and white men who took turns in command. It is presented as a found manuscript in two versions: one from the executor of the Narbondo archive, Uruguayan aristocrats, and the other from the document that Narbondo's wife sent to Melville.
Tomás de Mattos was born in Uruguay in 1947; the work belongs to twentieth-century Uruguayan narrative and the book weighs 442 grams.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American literature, particularly those who know or want to discover Herman Melville's story Benito Cereno.
