La nave de los muertos

In 1494, Sebastian Brandt published what would become one of the most extraordinary bestsellers, Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools). Translated into almost every European language, it was a merciless mirror reflecting the vices and flaws of its time. Five hundred years later, in 1926, a secret writer penned Das Totenschiff (The Ship of the Dead), a scathing critique of politics in the service of the powerful. Gerard Gales, its protagonist, loses his ship in Antwerp and, after countless adventures, ends up aboard the Yorikke, a ship that shelters all the social outcasts without identity. The novel, legendary in contemporary literary history for its extraordinary epic quality and which, like The Ship of Fools in its day, achieved immense fame, intertwines social criticism with the aesthetics of failure in a superb and thrilling adventure that embraces us with the emotion of the great Romantic tales.