by Herman Melville · Losada Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789500397933
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Billy Budd, Sailor, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, published posthumously in 1924. The story centers on Billy Budd, a young sailor serving aboard the Indomitable during the Napoleonic Wars. Billy is a man of great beauty and goodness, but he is also naive and innocent. His presence aboard the ship disrupts order and hierarchy, and he soon becomes the target of envy and malice from some of his fellow crew members and superiors. The novel explores themes such as innocence, evil, justice, and redemption.
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.
