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En 1799, au large des côtes du Chili, un bateau américain conduit par le capitaine Delano croise un bateau espagnol en piteux état, le San Dominick. Delano embarque à son bord pour proposer son aide. La plupart des officiers du bateau espagnol a disparu. Des esclaves noirs sont installés partout sur le bateau. Benito Cereno, le capitaine du navire négrier, raconte que le bateau a essuyé une tempête, puis que le scorbut a frappé l'équipage. Mais de nombreux détails interpellent Delano, il doute que ce soit la véritable histoire du San Dominick et de son équipage. Benito Cereno est un récit admirablement mené et profondément angoissant. Ses pages offrent une perfection dans la technique, une intensité d'atmosphère et une qualité de suspense qui font de Melville l'égal d'un Joseph Conrad.
LanguageFrançais
PublisherWS
Release dateSep 12, 2018
ISBN9782291050117
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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who received wide acclaim for his earliest novels, such as Typee and Redburn, but fell into relative obscurity by the end of his life. Today, Melville is hailed as one of the definitive masters of world literature for novels including Moby Dick and Billy Budd, as well as for enduringly popular short stories such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Bell-Tower.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Entertaining story, well written.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    At first seems like a sea story, then like a rather run-of-the-mill mystery novel, and then finally reveals itself (unless I'm overprojecting) to be a rather disturbing morality tale.spoiler:It forces us to ask to what degree Captain Delano represents ourselves, to conduct our own condemnation of the Americans but also, more importantly, of ourselves for (at least in my case) rooting for them.end spoilerAt first I was sure this wasn't a great book. Now I can see why it is, and if I read it again I think my appreciation will be twice as great the second time around.Oh, and this edition (Benito Cereno: A Text for Guided Research) is great because it has the actual memoirs of the real-life Amasa Delano, who is, incredibly, just as pigheaded as in the story, and whose story is just as bizarre.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Slow, well-crafted story of evil and slavery and rebellion and deceit.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Great short story about revolting and scheming slaves. Who is controlling whom? A bit weird that everything is explained in detail in the last chapter.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This was a boring book. It was short but I feel that I was reading a 1,000-page book. Its a book that you have a slight notion of what will happen next and thus just want to reach the climax. But the climax happened to far down the book. This book made me so sleepy I almost did not want to finish it.