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Benito Cereno

Herman Melville

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.6 | 6447 Users | 431 Reviews

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Title	:	Benito Cereno
Author	:	Herman Melville
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	December 19th 2006 by Bedford/St. Martin's (first published 1855)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Academic. School. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. 19th Century

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melville! in a melville house edition! crazy, right? this is a nice taut little thrill-ride of a book. okay, it's got a lot of description of boat-architecture, so it isn't a complete thriller - melville does tend to go overboard (GET IT??) with the descriptions sometimes, but regardless, it is more emotionally engaging than, say, that book about the whale. and i haven't read a book more full of seamen since reading Torn. to a modern reader, the situation is pretty apparent from the get-go, but the build to the reveal is so graceful and tightly written, that it doesn't matter if you see where it is going from the beginning; the story is still excellent. one might even call it "a real book." love the character of captain delano. it is surprising to me to see such subtlety from melville. i suppose i shouldn't be - there is a lot of shading in bartleby, but this one is even more so. for a tiny little novella, there is a lot happening here behind the words. after i toss down this review, i am going to go do a little research about how this was received when it was written, because i can only assume there was some backlash about what this book has to say about the slave trade and how unsavory even the well-intentioned, naive "good" characters are portrayed. also - squeee - there is a nice tie-in to cloud atlas, which is cool because that book is still fresh in my mind, and it was good to have it still in my brain-piece as i was reading the melville. really glad i decided to snatch this up the other day. it was everything i had hoped it would be. behold: an uncharacteristic digression! why didn't i like moby dick? people i like like moby dick. is it because i had to read it in a mandatory american-lit survey course my freshman year at NYU? when i was distracted with "i live in new york" fever?? should i give it another shot? because i have liked both this book and bartleby, but i haaaated that whale. does it deserve a more thoughtful and older-karen revisit? opinions are encouraged. come to my blog!

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Original Title:	Benito Cereno
ISBN:	031245242X (ISBN13: 9780312452421)
Edition Language:	English

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I'm still dancing around the big white whale, putting off a re-read of Moby Dick by approaching it at a tangent, tackling other, shorter books by Melville. Benito Cereno does a great job in showcasing the talent of the master, combining a sea-tale with a moving account of human souls pushed to the limits of endurance and beyond. Using a similar tehnique to Bartleby, The Scrivener , the main character is revealed indirectly, through the eyes of a benevolent witness. In this case the narrator

What a story! All along it is haunting and provocative, but when the "twist" comes, the reader is left floored. In this short story, Melville is asking questions about race, slavery, and life in the new world. How long can it last? Who is really "free" in all of this? Can we trust any of our assumptions? As with most Melville, you will need a dictionary handy, but I didn't find this one overly cumbersome. It definitely should be more well-known.

Fascinating and deeply unsettling nineteenth century tale about race, slavery, crime and deception at sea. Although Melvilles motives on these issuesif even he knew what they wereare not clear, that in itself is what makes the story so enduring and timeless. However, what earns five stars from me is Melville's skillful handling of his real objective which was to show the reader how his/her own prejudices and biases (especially concerning race and slavery) affect perceptions. Benito Cereno is one

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This novellain which Amasa Delano, an American captain, visits a mysterious Spanish slave-ship captained by Benito Cereno--is my favorite of Melvilles short works. It is not only as profound as Bartleby and Budd but also more pleasing. A first-rate adventure, it features an innocent in peril, the flash of steel, the flow of blood, surprises, astonishment, a hairbreadth escape, and a last minute rescue. Yet somehow it has never been a favorite with the average reader. Perhaps this is because both

What a story! All along it is haunting and provocative, but when the "twist" comes, the reader is left floored. In this short story, Melville is asking questions about race, slavery, and life in the new world. How long can it last? Who is really "free" in all of this? Can we trust any of our assumptions? As with most Melville, you will need a dictionary handy, but I didn't find this one overly cumbersome. It definitely should be more well-known.

Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter's mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.And come they