by Alberto Manguel · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420655383
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«Stevenson bajo las palmeras» is the short novel by Alberto Manguel, published by Alianza in paperback (104 pages, in Spanish).
The action places Robert Louis Stevenson in his final retreat in Samoa, where the tropical landscape and island life deeply disturb him. His stay grows uneasy with the arrival of a Scottish preacher of ambiguous appearance and the murder of a young native woman. Manguel weaves together the writer's obsessions: the struggle between good and evil, the boundary between dream and waking, the supernatural, and the blurred line between reality and fiction.
The work belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo - Literatura collection from Alianza Editorial and was published in 2003. The volume has 104 pages and the text is translated by Borja García Bercero.
For readers of literary fiction and followers of Alberto Manguel or Robert Louis Stevenson who enjoy short stories with an unsettling atmosphere.
Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."
