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Patrick O´Brian ( 1914-2000) es uno de los grandes novelistas de habla inglesa del siglo XX, que tiene una enorme legión de fanáticos que han devorado con pasión todos sus libros - cuyos ejemplares se han vendido por millones a lo ancho del mundo -. Su serie de veinte novelas sobre el mundo naval durante la época de las guerras napoleónicas a principios del siglo XIX, nos relatan las aventuras del capitán de la Marina Real Británica, Jack Aubrey y su amistad con el cirujano y espía Maturin. Sus novelas, inicialmente rechazadas como "ficción histórica", fueron luego consideradas como grandes obras épicas, dentro de la literatura moderna. La serie, comienza con Master and Commander ( traducida en español como Capitán de mar y guerra); y ésta traducción fue el nombre elegido en Argentina, para estrenar la película protagonizada por Russell Crowe. |
Patrick
O'Brian (1914-2000) is one of the greatest English-speaking novelist of the
20th Century, who has a huge legion of fans that have devoured with
passion all his books - whose copies have been sold by millions all throughout
the world -. His
series of twenty novels about the naval world during the
time of the Napoleonic Wars at the beginning of the 18th Century, tell us
the adventures of Jack Aubrey, a Captain of the British Real Navy and his
friendship with the surgeon and spy, Maturin. His novels initially rejected as "historical fiction", were then considered as big epic works inside the modern literature. The
series begins with Master and Commander and
this one was the name chosen for the movie that Russell Crowe played.
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| * BIBLIOGRAFÍA (thalassa-online)
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Patrick
O´Brian: cincuenta años en Colliure Reportaje
póstumo (Thalassa-online * La Costa más lejana del mundo(La lengua de Cervantes) *
Patrick
O’Brian:
Obras
(Diario de Yucatán)
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SOMETHING ABOUT PATRICK O'BRIAN
Patrick O'Brian, the
creator of a naval epic, dies aged 85
By
Ben Fenton in Washington (www.portal.telegraph.co.uk)
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PATRICK
O'BRIAN, arguably one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th
century, has died suddenly at the age of 85 in Ireland, friends said
yesterday. O'Brian
was best-known for his 20-volume series of historical novels about
Nelson's navy. His Aubrey-Maturin novels, initially dismissed as "historical
fiction", were to evolve into one of the great epics of modern
literature. O'Brian
guarded his privacy tightly, even in death. Last night, four days after
he died, his American publisher was unaware of it. He was said by
friends to have reserved a small maritime flourish for his end, having
his body shipped to the coast of French Catalonia. The
fact that O'Brian's fictional gifts applied as much to his own life as
to his literature, was unknown until his true identity was unmasked in
The Daily Telegraph. In October 1998, he was named as Richard Patrick
Russ, eighth son of a doctor who was English and not, as he had allowed
the world to believe, an Irishman. O'Brian
and his second wife Mary had lived in virtual seclusion in the port
village of Collioure near Perpignan, south-west France, since 1949.
Initially, O'Brian's books sold in small quantities and by involving
himself in translations of writers like Sartre and Colette he kept a
roof over their heads. But
in 1969 he began to write the Aubrey-Maturin series. At first sales were
slow, despite the enthusiastic support of other writers, such as A S
Byatt and Iris Murdoch, and it was not until 1991, when a New York Times
reviewer described O'Brian as "the best novelist you have never
heard of", that he became widely read. By
the time of his death, he was the subject of numerous internet websites,
companion books explaining the arcane naval and technical references in
his work, and could guarantee sales of 250,000 in America alone for each
episode. He was feted by admirals and editors, writers and politicians
as well as reaching the level of an addiction to many ordinary readers. He
announced several years ago that he would make his 20th book his last,
bringing Aubrey happiness as a promoted flag officer. But last month,
while signing books in New York, he said that he was working on volume
21. It
is not thought to have been finished. 11
January 1997: [Features] The odd couple all at sea [review of The Yellow
Admiral] |
Book
1 of the Aubrey/Maturin Series
"The
best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis Chichester
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the
friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship¹s surgeon
and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.
Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultless rendered: the conversational
idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food,
the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of
broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
"Re-creates with delightful subtlety, the flavor of life aboard a midget
British man-of-war plying the western Mediterranean in the year 1800, a year of
indecisive naval skirmishes with France and Spain. Even for a reader not
especially interested in matters nautical, the author's easy command of the
philosophical, political, sensual and social temper of the times flavors a rich
entertainment."—Martin Levin, New York Times Book Review
"Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to
start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in
paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he—or she—does not have a
copy, then beat the wretched fellow."—Kevin Myers, Irish Times.
In addition to twenty
volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series, Patrick O'Brian's many
books include Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, and The Unknown Shore.
O'Brian also wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks
and translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture's biographies of Charles de Gaulle. He
passed away in January 2000 at the age of 85.
Originally
published in 1970
1990 / paperback reissue / ISBN 0-393-30705-0
1994 / hardcover reissue / ISBN 0-393-03701-0
6" x 8" / 412 pages / Fiction
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