Omoo: con alcuni scritti e documenti inediti

Omoo: con alcuni scritti e documenti inediti

Omoo: con alcuni scritti e documenti inediti

Omoo: con alcuni scritti e documenti inediti

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Overview

Omoo, da tempo introvabile e tradotto qui integralmente, è il secondo romanzo di Melville. Racconta di una baleniera sconquassata comandata da un capitano inetto, di una ciurma di personaggi squinternati, di ammutinamenti, imprigionamenti, incontri, amicizie e baruffe con isolani e missionari di ogni risma. Sullo sfondo, la vita di bianchi e indigeni nei Mari del Sud. Omoo è un romanzo pieno di umorismo, ma anche un apologo sull’incontro e lo scontro fra la civiltà e il mondo incantato delle isole polinesiane. Si presentano per la prima volta in Italia anche il Diario del viaggio del «Meteor» e una serie di inediti documenti relativi alla carriera da marinaio dello scrittore americano.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788867996148
Publisher: Edizioni Clichy
Publication date: 02/01/2019
Series: Père Lachaise - Classici
Sold by: BOOKREPUBLIC SRL
Format: eBook
Pages: 140
File size: 968 KB
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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