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Želi ovaj predmet: | 3 |
Stanje: | Polovan bez oštećenja |
Garancija: | Ne |
Isporuka: | Pošta Post Express Lično preuzimanje |
Plaćanje: | Ostalo (pre slanja) Pouzećem Lično |
Grad: |
Novi Sad, Novi Sad |
Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
Herman Melville (New York, 1.8. 1819. – New York, 28.9. 1891.), američki romanopisac, pripovjedač i pjesnik.
Zbog rane očeve smrti napušta redovno školovanje i nakon nekoliko neuspjelih uposlenja zapošljava se 1839. kao brodski mali na trgovačkome brodu. Melvilleova rana literatura, koju je apsorbirao kao autodidakt, uključuje Shakespearea, Bibliju autorizirane verzije (Biblija kralja Jakova), te sedamnaestostoljetne misaone autore kao što su sir Thomas Browne i Robert Burton. Godine 1841. postao je članom posade kitolovca, ali ga je napustio prije ugovornog roka te je zajedno s još jednim članom posade doživio niz avanturističkih zgoda na jednome od Marquiških otoka. To mu je poslužilo kao predložak za književni prvijenac s putopisno-antropološkom tematikom, `Taipi`, 1846, u kojem daje spoj prikaza egzotičnih običaja polinežanske zajednice i poluautobiografskih pustolovina. `Omoo` (1847.), je tematski nastavak Taipija, s naglaskom na uništavanju domorodačke polinežanske zajednice zapadnjačkim tehnološkim i ideološkim osvajanjem. Ostala djela uključuju `Mardi` (1849.), pustolovnu romansu i `Bijela jakna` (1850.), realistički prikaz života na američkoj fregati. No, sva ta djela su danas rijetko čitana i ne pobuđuju interes osim kod specijalista posvećenih Melvilleu ili američkoj književnosti.
Herman Melville
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published first in London, then New York, in 1846. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is partly based on the author`s actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, liberally supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other books. The title is from the province Tai Pi Vai. Typee was Melville`s most popular work during his lifetime; it made him notorious as the `man who lived among the cannibals`.
Typee is `in fact, neither literal autobiography nor pure fiction`. Melville `drew his material from his experiences, from his imagination, and from a variety of travel books when the memory of his experiences were inadequate.`[1] He departed from what actually happened in several ways, sometimes by extending factual incidents, sometimes by fabricating them, and sometimes by what one scholar calls `outright lies`.[2]
The actual one-month stay on which Typee is based is presented as four months in the narrative; there is no lake on the actual island on which Melville might have canoed with the lovely Fayaway, and the ridge which Melville describes climbing after escaping the ship he may actually have seen in an engraving. He drew extensively on contemporary accounts by Pacific explorers to add to what might otherwise have been a straightforward story of escape, capture, and re-escape. Most American reviewers accepted the story as authentic, though it provoked disbelief among some British readers.