Typee: Avventura in Polinesia

Typee: Avventura in Polinesia

by Herman Melville
Typee: Avventura in Polinesia

Typee: Avventura in Polinesia

by Herman Melville

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Overview

"Typee. A peep at Polynesian life" è il romanzo d'esordio di Herman Melville, con il quale si impose all'attenzione del pubblico e della critica. Fu da subito un caso letterario, e fino alla seconda metà del Novecento era considerato il suo capolavoro. Molto più di un affresco esotico e picaresco, "Typee" è un romanzo "vero" fino quasi a confondersi con la cronaca, è insieme opera biografica, inno alla natura, diario avventuroso e trattato antropologico. Si narrano le gesta realmente accadute al mozzo ventitreenne Herman Melville e al suo fedele amico Toby, che dopo oltre un anno e mezzo di navigazione sulla baleniera Acushnet decidono di disertare nel mezzo del Pacifico, sulle isole Marchesi, un paradiso terrestre di cui però conoscono pericoli e avversità: è un eden abitato da terribili tribù cannibali. In "Typee", l'avventura e il reportage, le sofferenze fisiche e il terrore dell'ignoto si svolgono sempre sullo sfondo dell'incontaminata società polinesiana, incorrotta, libera e felice, che Melville coglie durante il suo lento annientamento per mano della feroce e ipocrita colonizzazione occidentale.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788899271664
Publisher: Piano B edizioni
Publication date: 12/02/2015
Series: Controtempo
Sold by: StreetLib SRL
Format: eBook
File size: 2 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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