Pierre o delle Ambiguità

by Herman Melville

Overview

Questo è il romanzo che ha stroncato la carriera di Herman Melville. Pubblicato nel 1852, poco dopo Moby Dick, è il libro, forse, che solo il capitano Achab avrebbe potuto scrivere. Oceanico, involuto, imperfetto, “il romanzo più folle mai scritto”, Pierre, o delle ambiguità mette in scena il tabù dell’incesto, è una ossessiva ricerca dell’Eden, destinata, va da sé, a fallire. Tradotto in Italia nel 1942, per merito di Luigi Berti, nessun editore ha avuto il coraggio di pubblicare come si deve questa “tragedia d’un Amleto americano”. Che testimonia la statura vertiginosa di Melville, uno scrittore che ha sofferto la propria opera fino alla fine, tentando l’inaudito.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788869271496
Publisher:	Guaraldi
Publication date:	06/10/2015
Sold by:	eDigita
Format:	eBook
Pages:	323
File size:	302 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