Resultados para "Secretos de Arena" en Literatura y ficción

El Hombre de Arena (Der Sandmann) es el cuento más célebre de E.T.A. Hoffmann. Publicado en 1817 en sus Cuentos nocturnos (Nachtstücke), es el cuento más representativo del máximo autor del género del romanticismo negro (Schwarze Romantik, conocido también como literatura del terror gótico) durante el siglo XIX. El cuento relata la vida de un muchacho llamado, Nathanaël, quien está traumatizado por la muerte de su padre, que murió en muy extrañas circunstancias, ocurrida durante su infancia.

Fynes Chapman, reputado comerciante de Londres, es escogido por la Corona británica para abrir una nueva vía en la Ruta de la Seda. Fynes viaja junto a su hija, Katherine, con la Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales. Allí los espera Arthur Wyatt, coronel que los acompañará en la caravana hacia el Imperio chino. Arthur no esperaba a una mujer allí y, por esa razón, verá todos sus planes alterados. Pronto iniciarán un viaje plagado de adversidades. Katherine guarda un secreto que la ha conducido hasta esa arriesgada expedición.

El hombre de la arena de E. T. A. Hoffmann comienza con un intercambio de cartas entre Nathanael; Clara, su prometida, y Lothar, hermano de ella. Nathanael, que está en otra ciudad debido a sus estudios universitarios, confiesa en su manuscrito un miedo que lo atormenta desde la infancia: el hombre de la arena, un siniestro ser que, según la leyenda, le roba los ojos a los niños por la noche. Nathanael está seguro de que, cuando era niño, este ser asumió la identidad de Coppelius, el abogado de la familia, quien terminó asesinando a su padre.

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