by Herman Melville · Orbis · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475300399
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«Benito Cereno; Billy Budd, marinero» is a book that brings together two short novels by Herman Melville, published by Orbis in paperback (211 pages, in Spanish).
Benito Cereno is based on a real event brought before the courts: a captain's encounter with a drifting merchant ship. Billy Budd, marinero, a posthumous novel, follows an innocent young man in a hostile environment on board. Both reflect on justice, morality and human nature in nineteenth-century maritime life.
Volume 9 of the Historia Universal de la Literatura collection, in a 1982 edition. Translation by Nicanor Ancochea and José María Valverde.
For readers of classics of American literature and nineteenth-century maritime narrative.
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.
