Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these -- "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno" -- first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales. "Bartleby" (also known as "Bartleby the Scrivener") is an intriguing moral allegory set in the business world of mid-19th-century New York. A strange, enigmatic man employed as a clerk in a legal office, Bartleby forces his employer to come to grips with the most basic questions of human responsibility, and haunts the latter's conscience, even after Bartleby's dismissal. "Benito Cereno," considered one of Melville's best short stories, deals with a bloody slave revolt on a Spanish vessel. A splendid parable of man's struggle against...
Visa mer
Recensioner
2010-10-24
Betyg 
Har berättelsens huvudperson don Amasa Delano hamnat ombord på ett sjörövarskepp
hemsökt av spöken?
Skall han bli mördad av en otäck kapten som nu är hans värd?
Den här boken tillhörde den Tyska Weimartidens favoritlitteratur.
Det kan vara en allegorisk gestaltning av Västvärldens öde, men är också en psykologiskt raffinerad
uttolkning av en faktisk historisk händelse 1799.
Stundtals rör vi oss inte bara i en annan tid utan också i en annan dimesion - i mörk gotik.
