Billy Budd, Sailor
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780140390537
- ISBN10 0140390537
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 385
- Sammlung Penguin classics
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2003
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
Abschnitte
English LiteraturBilly Budd, Sailor
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Stung by the critical reception and lack of commercial success of his previous two works, Moby-Dick and Pierre, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other selections here-"Bartleby," "The Encantadas," "Benito Cereno," and "The Piazza"-also illuminate, in varying guises, the way fictions are created and shared with a wider society. In his introduction Frederick Busch discusses Melville's preoccupation with his "correspondence with the world," his quarrel with silence, and why fiction was, for Melville, "a matter of life and death."