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Há 3 dias · From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, The Confidence-Man (1857).
Há 3 dias · Herman Melville was briefly famous in his lifetime as the writer of adventure novels such as Typee and Omoo. Beginning in the early 20th century, Melville’s works, including Moby Dick , “ Bartleby the Scrivener ,” and Billy Budd , rose in critical esteem, and he was eventually considered to be one of the great American writers.
- Herman Melville’s family was descended from Scottish and Dutch settlers of New York and had taken leading roles in the American Revolution and in t...
- As a young man, Herman Melville worked as a schoolteacher. He then worked on the sea, first as a cabin boy and later as a harpooner on a whaling sh...
Há 5 dias · For Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, Melville’s character is an example of a whole “literature of the No,” as he explores in Bartleby & Co. Vila-Matas’s novel—published in 2000 in Spanish and translated to English in 2004—ostensibly comprises a diary that is also a compendium of 86 “footnotes commenting on an invisible text,” as its hunchbacked narrator writes at the outset.
Há 1 dia · Bartleby, the Scrivener By Herman Melville (1853) This story explores the mysterious behavior of Bartleby, a law copyist who gradually withdraws from life and becomes a stranger over time.
Há 3 dias · Melville is perhaps at his best when he is writing about the sea and life in relation to it (not to disparage his other brilliant works like Bartleby the Scrivener which are landlocked tales). It’s no wonder, of course, when you learn that Melville (1819-1891) was himself a veteran sailor who lived quite an adventuresome life on the sea.
Há 1 dia · Here, with Melville, we have a present-subjunctive, as the moot point is being mooted before our eyes; other writers might prefer a comma after “honour,” and/or after “otherwise,” but Melville’s delving into the brackish waters of dishonour is nevertheless plain.
Há 3 dias · Digo “Me da paja” (puede decirse también “alta paja” que es como un superlativo), y no hago más que predicar con una afirmación como en el caso de Bartleby, una negación.
