overseas it is not his work Hugo Pratt nor does he have his legendary character as his hero, Corto Maltese. Written by the Italian author in 2015. Mark SteinerClose friend and collaborator on many of Pratt’s projects that faithfully depict the universe prattian the sea, the journey and adventure of Corto Maltese. overseas it’s not funny either, but a novel in which a 15-year-old Short teenager appears among the characters Secondary to this story imagined by Steiner before the adventures created by Hugo Pratt. The book, which won the Emilio Salgari Award for Adventure Literature in 2016, It was not published in Spain and will now be published for the first time by Confluencias.Inside the Hugo Pratt Collection managed by Alicante Paco Linares Mico. The novel will go on sale on September 12. Presented in Alicante on the 23rd of the same month, At the headquarters of Casa Mediterráneo, in the presence of the author Marco Steiner, accompanied by Linares and Patrizia Zanotti, Executor of Hugo Pratt.
overseas thus joining other previously published books in this collection, for example A pending appointment. Voyage in the South SeasTravel diary illustrated by Hugo Pratt, or Conversations with Dominique Petitfaux in the Shadow of Cortois going through the works also directed by Linares, who saw the light last year. Pointing out that the man from Alicante is Marco Steiner (whose name was conceived by Pratt), the man from Alicante explains, “The collection is diverse and all publications relate to Hugo Pratt’s universe, whether it is his work or that of other authors.” . “Hugo Pratt’s closest literary collaborator was a sailor and traveler like him, experiencing the essence of travel and adventure.”
The hero in this book Robert Kee Corto Maltese’s father’s friend, a smuggler sailor looking for a different wind to make him forget the past with his son Bertran and his inseparable friend Cortoon an adventure Located between the Mediterranean Sea and the China SeaIt will begin in Sicily and end in Cambodia on a stormy journey that will take them from the Greek islands, Venice or Istanbul ports to southern China and the Mekong waters.
On this date, Steiner is back in 1901 and Corto Maltese is a teenager. (Hugo Pratt drew it when he was 18. Youth), “which already reveals the character’s instinct, charisma, intelligence, romance. that he pulled out at some point, and that we eventually formed a relationship with Corto Maltese, who preceded the character we knew and Hugo Pratt would later develop”.
As the book states, “Most of the fascinating world of Corto Maltese, which Marco Steiner describes in the truest spirit of his books, Corto is contemporary with all exotic myths and legends born in the magic age of European shipping. Transcribing images of this world conceived by Hugo Pratt has the merit of maximizing the narrative atmosphere that sets the stage for these characters.”
This is the “learning and enjoying with the senses” novel that Pratt and Maltese’s followers will continue. breathing the atmosphere created around the traveling sailor along new 336 pages.
Author
Marco Steiner (Rome, 1956) lives between his hometown and New York. He collaborated with Hugo Pratt on his projects from 1989 to 1995. That same year, he completed the novel after Pratt’s death. Court Sconta detta Arcana. after a trip to Patagonia and North America on the trail Tango 2006 novel by Hugo Pratt last piece.
Traveled with the photographer between 2004-2007. Marco D’Anna Writing introductory texts for sailor’s adventures through Europe, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America prattian. These documents were collected in the volume. i am luoghi dell’avventuraEdited by Rizzoli-Lizard.
overseas It is Steiner’s second novel in which the Maltese sailor appears as an adolescent; titled the first Il Corvo di Pietrapublished a year ago.