Benito Cereno (Audio)
ISBN:
9780786105427 (0786105429)
Publish date: December 12th 1980
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
19th Century,
Short Stories
I've read both Moby Dick and Billy Budd, but of the Melville works I've read, it's this novella I find most impressive. There's none of the windy digressions in Moby Dick or the heavy-handed allegory of Billy Budd or The Confidence-man here. This is as close as I've found in Melville to taut, subtle...
"Benito Cereno" were never meant to be read only once. However, it took me some multiple reads into this short novel to make sense of the plot as the book need to be absorbed more than its meant to be read. Based on a true story, "Benito Cereno" was narrated by a very gullible unreliable narrator ab...
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2011/08/art-of-novella-challenge-benito-cereno.html
I don't really know what to think of this book.
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