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Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd
Bartleby the Scrivener Benito Cereno Billy Budd Author:Herman Melville These three short works represent the last flowering of Herman Melville's genius. By the time "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853) and "Benito Cereno" (1855) were published, Melville's career as a successful author was effectively over, even though he wass still in his mid-thirties. (Billy Budd, Foretopman, was not published until 1924, more than thr... more »ee decades after it's author's death.) The exotic adventures that had launched Melville's fame had given way to what many readers of the day regarded as obscure philosophizing. Today we can see in the somber image of the poor scrivener who "would prefer not to" an existential figure foreshadowing the imagination of Kafka decades before that writer's birth. In the credulous Captain Belano's distorted vision of reality in "Benito Cereno", the despair of the Claggart as he looks upon the inarticulate purity of Billy Budd, today's reader confront the great philosophical and literary issues of our time, of all time, expressed with a profundity of feeling rarely equaled in the greates works of the world's literature.« less
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