赫尔曼·麦尔维尔：我宁愿不要（Pushkin收藏系列） I Would Prefer Not To Herman Melville

基本信息

Series:Pushkin Collection

Format:Paperback / softback 256 pages

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Imprint:Pushkin Press

ISBN:9781782277460

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:232g

Dimensions:121 x 166 x 21 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在这些关于超现实的平凡办公室生活和晦涩的海上紧张局势的故事中，麦尔维尔黑暗的现代感使我们陷入了一个充满讽刺和神秘的世界，在这个世界上没有什么是像它起初看起来那样的。

一位律师雇用了一位新的抄写员，但却遭到了顽固的、令人困惑的抵抗。一个玩世不恭的避雷针推销员利用人们对暴风雨天气的恐惧来进行交易。在登上一艘被围困的西班牙奴隶船后，一个美国商人的愉快前景一再被麻痹的不安所笼罩。

In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.

A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A cynical lightning rod salesman plies his trade by exploiting fears in stormy weather. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease.

作者简介

赫尔曼-麦尔维尔于1819年出生在纽约市的一个商人家庭。他的父亲在1832年突然去世，为了维持生计，麦尔维尔做了银行职员、农场工人和教师的工作。1839年，他开始了一系列海上航行，这些航行为他的小说Typee（1846年）、Omoo（1847年）和他伟大的杰作Moby-Dick（1851年）提供了灵感。由于销量不佳，评论不友善，麦尔维尔于1857年放弃了小说创作，转而从事诗歌创作，并在纽约码头担任海关检查员。1891年，他在相对默默无闻中去世。

Herman Melville was born to a merchant family in New York City in 1819. His father died suddenly in 1832, and Melville took jobs as a bank clerk, a farmhand and a teacher to make ends meet. In 1839, he embarked on the first in a series of sea voyages that would provide him with inspiration for his novels Typee (1846), Omoo (1847) and his great masterpiece, Moby-Dick (1851). Following poor sales and hostile reviews, Melville abandoned fiction writing in 1857, turning to poetry and a career as a customs inspector on the New York docks. He died in relative obscurity in 1891.