El nadador como héroe
Sprawson, Charles
Converted into an immediate classic since its publication, the swimmer and diver Charles Sprawson (1941-2020) explores in this original and seductive work of cultural history the meaning that different societies have given to the art of swimming: in classical Greece and Rome imperial, in England and Germany in the 19th century or in the United States and Japan in the last fifty years. Sprawson also offers fascinating glimpses into the lives of great swimming heroes: Byron leaping dramatically through the waves at Shelley's funeral; Edgar Allan Poe and his lonely and mysterious baths; Rupert Brooke swimming naked with Virginia Woolf; Hart Crane diving to death in Mexico Bay...A literary celebration of a passion, a brilliant cult work full of suggestive references -to Goethe and Coleridge, to Scott Fitzgerald and Yukio Mishima, to Riefenstahl's cinema and Hollywood aquatic musicals, to Johnny Weissmuller and the Olympic competition-, The Swimmer as Hero (1992) is not only the best book on swimming there is, but perhaps the best book ever written on any sport.
- Author
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Sprawson, Charles
- Subject
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Sports & games
> Sports
- EAN
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9788419553126
- ISBN
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978-84-19553-12-6
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
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Siruela
- Pages
- 316
- High
- 23.0 cm
- Weight
- 15.0 cm
- Release date
- 05-04-2023
- Language
- Spanish
- Series
- Libros del tiempo
- Number
- 417