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Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Melville, Herman
Rechtmäßiger Name
Melville, Herman
Melvill, Herman (ursprüngliche Schreibung)
Andere Namen
Melvill, Herman
Geburtstag
1819-08-01
Todestag
1891-09-28
Begräbnisort
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, USA
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
USA
Geburtsort
New York, New York, USA
Sterbeort
New York, New York, USA
Todesursache
Herzinfarkt
Wohnorte
New York, New York, USA (1819-1830)
Albany, New York, USA ( [1830, 1835, 1838])
Händler am St. Lawrence (1839)
Walfangschiff Acushnet (1841-1842)
Walfangschiff Charles & Henry
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA (Zeige alle 7)
Troy, New York, USA ( [1838])
Ausbildung
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)
Berufe
Bankangestellter (1832-1834)
Seemann
Harpunier, Walfänger Charles & Henry
Farmarbeiter (1834-1835)
Romanautor
Customs inspector, New York, New York, USA (Zeige alle 10)
clerk (1832-1834)
bookkeeper (1935-1937)
teacher (1837)
teacher (1839-1840)
Beziehungen
Metcalf, Paul (great-grandson)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (friend)
Dana, Richard Henry (friend)
Kurzbiographie
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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„Ich möchte bevorzugtermaßen nicht.“

Wer hat sie nicht schon erlebt: jene merkwürdig zurückgenommenen, nahezu autistischen Menschen, die sich wenig bis nichts um alles andere kümmern. Gustav-Peter Köhler entwickelt mit seiner klaren, markanten und doch leisen Stimmte den richtigen Widerhall dieser Geschichte um einen, der immer wieder sagt: „Ich möchte bevorzugtermaßen nicht.“

Diese Aussage ist ein Surrogat für Personen, die am Leben verzweifelt einfach aufgegeben haben, selbst letzte Reste an Hoffnung vermissen lassen, ganz wie eine Blume, die einfach verdorrt und stolz in der Blumenvase ausharrt. Ist das Blühen eine schöne Aufgabe so lassen die Meisten das kalte Absterben zu einer Qual werden. Nicht so die Bartlebys, sie verdorren im Stillen so blühend wie beim Entfalten der Blätter.

Abblättern, zurückgehen, absterben, ruhig werden, altern, egal werden - es gibt unendlich viele Bezeichnungen dafür, nichts mehr zu wollen, atmend zu sterben. Der Herbst in uns kann zum Verzweifeln sein, Trostlosgikeit, Hoffnungslosigkeit pur - diesem Drama ausgesetzt zu sein, mitten im Arbeiten, ein schwerer Schock für den Erzähler, der letzten Endes sein eigenes Ende ahnend erkennt und Bartleby helfen möchte, aber scheitern muss.

Eine unvergleichlich tief sitzende Geschichte, hervorragend gesprochen, immer wieder zu Herzen gehend und notwendig, um Menschwerdung zu erkennen.
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Clu98 | 95 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 24, 2023 |
Die Erzählung um Bartleby ist schnell gelesen. Als Melville sie schrieb, war er ziemlich am Ende. Literarischer Erfolg stellte sich nicht ein, tatsächlich war "Moby Dick" sein Erfolgskiller.
Da schrieb er einige Erzählungen, auch "Bartleby". Der Ich-Erzähler ist Anwalt an der Wall Street und beschäftigt mehere Schreiber, darunter Bartleby. Dieser verweigert fortlaufend seine Tätigkeiten, immer mit der Auskunft "ich möchte lieber nicht" ("I would prefer not to“). Anstatt ihn zu entlassen, kommt ihm sein Arbeitgeber entgegen, schließlich bewohnt Bartleby das Büro, ohne noch etwas für die Kanzlei zu arbeiten. Dann zieht der Anwalt mit seiner ganzen Kanzlei um und lässt Bartleby zurück.
Das Buch ist höchst seltsam und wird verschieden interpretiert. Am ehesten kann ich eine Kritik am Kapitalismus erkennen, Bartleby verweigert sich einfach radikal dem Leistungsgedanken.
Geschrieben ist es großartig und liest sich super.
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Wassilissa | 95 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 29, 2022 |
Nun habe ich zum ersten Mal das komplette Buch gelesen, zum Glück zusammen mit einem Freund. Alleine hätte ich wohl nicht durchgehalten bzw. mehr quer gelesen. Denn das Buch hat verhältnismäßig wenig Handlung und viel Sachtext. Man erfährt alles und noch viel mehr, was es zur Entstehungszeit über Wale zu wissen gab. Der Autor ist wahnsinnig gebildet und belesen. Diese Ausführlichkeit geht allerdings zu Lasten der Spannung. Die eigentliche Handlung, ihre Charaktere und Symbolik sind ja wohlbekannt, aus vielen verkürzten Berabeitungen und dem schönen Film mit Gregory Peck. Das ist definitiv eine geniale Geschichte. Die Ausführlichkeit der Sachtexte hingegen war mir tatsächlich zu viel.… (mehr)
 
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Herman Melville schildert die tragische Geschichte von Billy Budd, einem zum Kriegsdienst gepressten Matrosen, der seinen Dienst dennoch vorbildlich versieht. Seine Hingabe, Beliebtheit und Schönheit erweckt die Missgunst eines Vorgesetzten, der ihn in eine Falle lockt und der Meuterei bezichtigt. Aufgrund eines angeborenen Sprachfehlers unfähig sich zu verteidigen, schlägt Billy Budd zu und tötet den Vorgesetzten. Das Kriegsgericht unter Kapitän Vere gerät nun in eine Zwickmühle zwischen moralischen Bedenken und militärischer Pflicht. Bezeichnend ist eine Aussage Veres, die ich stellvertretend für das Dilemma des Gerichts zitieren will: "Von einem Engel Gottes erschlagen. Aber der Engel muss hängen."

Der Kurzroman strotzt - wie bei Melville üblich - von historischen Exkursen, Metaphern und Symbolik ist aber dennoch flüssig zu lesen. Letzlich bleibt der Leser aber dennoch etwas unbefriedigt, zumal die Handlung selbst nicht wirklich zu überzeugen vermag.
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