by Herman Melville · Salvat Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434580282
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«Benito Cereno» is the short novel by Herman Melville, published by Salvat Editores in paperback (138 pages, in Spanish).
Set in 1799, the story follows Captain Amasa Delano, who, upon finding the Spanish slave ship San Dominick adrift, boards it and tries to find out what has happened. The evasive attitude of its captain, Benito Cereno, turns the rescue into a disturbing exploration of deceit, slavery, and the fragility of perception.
It belongs to the Biblioteca Básica Salvat collection, number 25, with a prologue by Juan Benet and a translation by Nicanor Ancochea.
For readers of nineteenth-century American literary classics and sea stories with an unsettling atmosphere.
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
