Io e il mio camino

Io e il mio camino

Io e il mio camino

Io e il mio camino


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Overview

Una delle opere più gustose del grande letterato americano, che si ispira a un evento avvenuto nel 1850: Melville quell'anno si trasferisce in una grande fattoria a Pittsfield, Massachussets. È proprio lì che comincerà a scrivere il suo capolavoro più grande, 'Moby Dick'. In quella fattoria, nominata Harrowhead, sarebbe rimasto tredici anni ed è lei la vera protagonista di questo romanzo, nel quale Melville si immagina nei panni di un anziano e burbero fumatore di pipa, che adora trascorrere lunghe ore davanti al caminetto della sua casa. In maniera esilarante, la storia racconta delle battaglie di costui contro la moglie, che progetta di rivoluzionare la casa e quindi di smantellare anche il suo amato camino. Oltre al delizioso racconto delle piccole e grandi battaglie combattute tra coniugi all'interno delle mura domestiche, questa è anche una metafora del conflitto che da sempre divide gli uomini, sospesi tra il desiderio di modernità e la fisiologica tendenza a resistere al cambiamento. All'interno - come in tutti i volumi Fermento - gli "Indicatori" per consentire al lettore un agevole viaggio dentro il libro.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788869971471
Publisher: Fermento
Publication date: 07/13/2015
Series: Emozioni senza tempo , #236
Sold by: StreetLib SRL
Format: eBook
File size: 3 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
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