by Herman Melville · JUVENTUD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426127464
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«Benito Cereno» is the short novel by Herman Melville published by Juventud in paperback (109 pages, in Spanish).
Off the coast of Chile, Captain Amasa Delano comes across the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship in apparent distress. As he approaches its enigmatic captain, Benito Cereno, he senses a tension on board that he cannot quite understand. The tale blends the slave trade, racism and madness, between appearance and reality.
It belongs to the 'Narrativa breve' collection from Editorial Juventud, with translation by Frank Symons and Núria Fabrés. Originally published in 1855.
For readers aged 14 and up, interested in classics of American literature and stories with a maritime setting.
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.
