Billy Budd, marinaio

by Herman Melville, Giulio Carmenaghi (traduttore)

Overview

Scritto probabilmente nel 1891, anno di morte dell'autore, ma pubblicato solo nel 1924, è l'affascinante storia di un marinaio e della nave su cui aveva navigato, 'l'Indomitable'. Ambientato all'epoca delle repressioni degli ammutinamenti che puntualmente si verificavano sulle navi inglesi durante le grandi battaglie navali contro la flotta francese, Billy Budd si guadagna la stima dei propri superiori grazie alle proprie capacità di marinaio e al proprio ottimismo. Un forte contrasto tra ciò che è giusto dal punto di vista naturale e ciò che è giusto solo per la vita degli uomini, questo romanzo di Melville mescola il brillante stile avventuroso della migliore narrativa statunitense a un'amara riflessione sulle ingiustizie che l'uomo comune si trova a dover sopportare senza poter opporre resistenza. Perché ciò che l'uomo percepisce come giusto non sempre è giusto dal punto di vista giuridico e delle leggi.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788897502746
Publisher:	Nobel
Publication date:	04/28/2015
Series:	Libri da premio , #48
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15