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Cargando... Billy Budd: and Other Stories (English Library) (original 1924; edición 1968)por Herman Melville
Detalles de la obraBilly Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) por Herman Melville (Author) (1924)
   No hay Conversaciones actualmente sobre este libro. I would prefer not to say what I thought. (  ) Adrian_Astur_Alvarez | Dec 3, 2019 |  I would prefer not to say what I thought. ( ) Adrian_Astur_Alvarez | Dec 3, 2019 | Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. Billy and Bartleby are old friends, portraits of bejeweled philosophy. Strange as it may appear, the selection which punched me in the jaw was Cock-A-Doodle-Do: a tale told by a fellow traveler (he drinks porter and reads Rabelais) about a magical fowl which is a fount of bliss, an actual agent of earthly happiness. (  ) jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 | Good v Evil and the law. Also, not a bad movie with Peter Ustinov. ( ) jerry-book | Jan 26, 2016 | I read Billy Budd for a book club I belong to. (I didn't read the other stories.) I found it incredibly slow going. I wouldn't even attempt to read it without access to Wikipedia or some other such source. Especially at the beginning, it makes a lot of cultural references with which I was completely unacquainted, e.g., Anacharis Cloots, Kaspar Hauser and Titus Oates. This made the meaning of some passages incomprehensible without some research. The characters are all stereotypes. I found the plot unrealistic. I also found it just plain exasperating that we are not told what Vere said to Budd after Budd was condemned to death. (  ) Jonri | Jun 9, 2014 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Belongs to Publisher SeriesPenguin English Library (EL29) Contenida enContiene
If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener," his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic--and ultimately disastrous--extreme; and in "Benito Cereno," his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados," the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza," and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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