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发表于2024-11-24
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"What has cast such a shadow upon you?"
"The Negro."
With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, and a surprise ending, Benito Cereno at first seems merely a provocative example from the genre Herman Melville created with his early best-selling novels of the sea. However, most Melville scholars consider it his most sophisticated work, and many, such as novelist Ralph Ellison, have hailed it as the most piercing look at slavery in all of American literature.
Based on a real life incident—the character names remain unchanged— Benito Cereno tells what happens when an American merchant ship comes upon a mysterious Spanish ship where the nearly all-black crew and their white captain are starving and yet hostile to offers of help. Melville's most focused political work, it is rife with allusions (a ship named after Santo Domingo, site of the slave revolt led by Toussaint L'Ouverture), analogies (does the good-hearted yet obtuse American captain refer to the American character itself?), and mirroring images that deepen our reflections on human oppression and its resultant depravities.
It is, in short, a multi-layered masterpiece that rewards repeated readings, and deepens our appreciation of Melville's genius.
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
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评分Melville的遣词造句真是难……荣升为读的最慢的文学作品,甚至比文论和哲学文本还要慢。这篇novella有点拖沓了,结尾前10页的法律文献直接没看,结尾貌似惊现道德说教?不过描写还是很到位的,结局也比Heart of Darkness乐观多了。
评分Melville的遣词造句真是难……荣升为读的最慢的文学作品,甚至比文论和哲学文本还要慢。这篇novella有点拖沓了,结尾前10页的法律文献直接没看,结尾貌似惊现道德说教?不过描写还是很到位的,结局也比Heart of Darkness乐观多了。
评分an amazing novel. a major puzzle for me is why this book is thus named, for Benito has none of those characteristics of a hero. major work of America's race problem. recommended to be read paralleled with Taney's opinion on Dred Scott.
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Benito Cereno pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024