Herman Melville

Benito Cereno (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Enhanced Media Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781365515538
• Artikelnr.: 46942984

Autorenporträt

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. Herman Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.