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Herman Melville (1819–1891)

Auteur van Moby Dick

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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was born into a seemingly secure, prosperous world, a descendant of prominent Dutch and English families long established in New York State. That security vanished when first, the family business failed, and then, two years later, in young toon meer Melville's thirteenth year, his father died. Without enough money to gain the formal education that professions required, Melville was thrown on his own resources and in 1841 sailed off on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction. Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were partly romance and partly autobiographical travel books set in the South Seas. Both were popular successes, particularly Typee, which included a stay among cannibals and a romance with a South Sea maiden. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi (1849), which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. Moby Dick (1851) also began as an adventure story, based on Melville's experiences aboard the whaling ship. However, in the writing of it inspired in part by conversations with his friend and neighbor Hawthorne and partly by his own irrepressible imagination and reading of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists Melville turned the book into something so strange that, when it appeared in print, many of his readers and critics were dumbfounded, even outraged. By the mid-1850s, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives, who fortunately were always in a position to help him. He continued to write, however, and published some marvelous short fiction pieces Benito Cereno" (1855) and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) are the best. He also published several volumes of poetry, the most important of which was Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), poems of occasionally great power that were written in response to the moral challenge of the Civil War. His posthumously published work, Billy Budd (1924), on which he worked up until the time of his death, became Melville's last significant literary work, a brilliant short novel that movingly describes a young sailor's imprisonment and death. Melville's reputation, however, rests most solidly on his great epic romance, Moby Dick. It is a difficult as well as a brilliant book, and many critics have offered interpretations of its complicated ambiguous symbolism. Darrel Abel briefly summed up Moby Dick as "the story of an attempt to search the unsearchable ways of God," although the book has historical, political, and moral implications as well. Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York, along with his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891

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Gangbare naam
Melville, Herman
Officiële naam
Melville, Herman
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Melvill, Herman [birth name/original spelling]
Geboortedatum
1819-08-01
Overlijdensdatum
1891-09-28
Graflocatie
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx County, New York, USA
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
New York, New York, USA
Plaats van overlijden
New York, New York, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
cardiovascular disease
Woonplaatsen
New York, New York, USA [1819-1830]
Albany, New York, USA [1830-1838]
Troy, New York, USA [1838]
merchantman St. Lawrence [1839]
whaling ship Acushnet [1841]
whaling ship Charles & Henry (toon alle 7)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Opleiding
New York Male School (1825)
Columbia Grammar School (1829-1830)
Albany Classical School (1835)
Albany Academy (1830-1831)
Albany Academy (1836-1837)
Lansingburgh Acadamy (1838)
Beroepen
bank clerk (1832-1834)
sailor
harpooner, whaleship Charles & Henry
farm hand (1834-1835)
novelist
Customs inspector, New York, New York, USA (toon alle 10)
clerk (1832-1834)
bookkeeper (1935-1937)
teacher (1837)
teacher (1839-1840)
Relaties
Metcalf, Paul (great-grandson)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (friend)
Dana, Richard Henry (friend)
Korte biografie
Herman Melville, American author, was born in New York City on the 1st of August 1819. He shipped as a cabin-boy at the age of eighteen, thus being enabled to make his first visit to England, and at twenty-two sailed for a long whaling cruise in the Pacific. After a year and a half he deserted his ship at the Marquesas Islands, on account of the cruelty of the captain; was captured by cannibals on the island of Nukahiva, and detained, without hardship, four months; was rescued by the crew of an Australian vessel, which he joined, and two years later reached New York. Thereafter, with the exception of a passenger voyage around the world in 1860, Melville remained in the United States, devoting himself to literature -- though for a considerable period (1866-1885) he held a post in the New York custom-house -- and being perhaps Hawthorne's most intimate friend among the literary men of America. His writings were numerous, but judged of varying merit by his contemporaries; his verse, patriotic and other was forgotten; and his works of fiction and of travel were deemed of irregular execution. Nevertheless, few authors have been enabled so freely to introduce romantic personal experiences into their books. He portrayed seafaring life and character with vigour and originality, and from a personal knowledge equal to that of Cooper, Marryat or Clark Russell. But these records of adventure were followed by other tales that his contemporaries found so turgid, eccentric, opinionative, and loosely written as to seem the work of another author. He died a failed author in New York on the 28th of September 1891. The 20th century's collective reassessment of his work is much more favorable, and he is now classed among the greatest American writers.

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Achab, kapitein op de walvisvaart, is een been kwijtgeraakt door toedoen van de witte walvis Moby Dick. Hij wil, koste wat het kost, wraak. En het kost wat: zijn schip en de hele bemanning, op één na, die het verhaal kan vertellen.
Het boek laat de lezer kennismaken met de walvis, allerlei aspecten van de walvisvaart, de gevaren ervan en het nut van wat de walvissen opleveren. Blij dat er op die manier niet meer op walvissen wordt gejaagd, dat er überhaupt nauwelijks meer op die dieren wordt gejaagd.… (meer)
 
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wannabook08 | 538 andere besprekingen | Jan 13, 2021 |
An extremely rare edition nowadays, and expensive, but careful research brought an affordably priced copy to my attention. Excellent text, printing and annotations! Indispensible for a serious study of Moby-Dick.
 
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lest | 538 andere besprekingen | Aug 28, 2017 |
Broeiende adaptatie, die vol inzet op de waanzin van Ahab, dik en vettig ingekleurd. Jammer (maar evengoed verdedigbaar) is dat enkele sleutelscènes 'ontbreken' en dat Chabouté niet de variatie in stijlregisters van Melville nastreeft. Het resultaat mag er evenwel zijn. Deze bewerking staat er vanaf de eerste pagina, en overtuigt zowel als een op zich staand werk als als een respectvolle verbeelding van het origineel.
 
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razorsoccam | 5 andere besprekingen | Jun 7, 2017 |
Latest Dutch translation (after four (or five?) previous ones: J.F. Werumeus Buning (1929), Emy Giphart (1961), ?P.A. Zandstra (1970)?, S. Westerdijk (1979), Helen Knopper (1981)). Due to the popularity of the story many editions have been published, including numerous adaptations, abbreviated versions, illustrated classics, children's books etc, making the publishing history a horror to unravel. The Netherlands are no exception.
 
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