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发表于2024-11-08
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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.
其实还挺有诗意 只是 主人公也太蠢了吧 想说种族的问题可是跟Chester Himes比起来又真的差太多...
评分很有意思的中篇小说。披着西班牙国旗刮胡子的部分简直就是神!
评分M先森写意境,用前50页酝酿堆积,2页的高潮用10页写,后5页是蛋疼的结局
评分M先森写意境,用前50页酝酿堆积,2页的高潮用10页写,后5页是蛋疼的结局
评分In my opinion, the book's a little too complicated for high schoolers, especially with the complete vocab. Overall, it's a nice story.
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Benito Cereno pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024