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Benito Cereno

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"What has cast such a shadow upon you?"
"The Negro."

With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, and a surprise ending, Benito Cereno at first seems merely a provocative example from the genre Herman Melville created with his early best-selling novels of the sea. However, most Melville scholars consider it his most sophisticated work, and many, such as novelist Ralph Ellison...more

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Published December 19th 2006 by Bedford/St. Martin's (first published 1855)

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Feb 25, 2011 Paquita Maria Sanchez rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Whew. Gut-punch. I'm going to attempt to tread lightly here, as any real down-and-dirty analysis of this story would be a worse spoiler of the plot's resolution than the Barton Fink DVD menu screen (and if you haven't seen this so-awesome-there-are-no-words-movie and you decide to watch it on DVD, do yourself a favor and mute the sound, insert the disk, close your eyes, press play, and only then un-mute and enjoy. You will thank me later.)

So, yeah...foray into the realm of the audio book! I lis...more

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Jan 27, 2012 karen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

melville! in a melville house edition!
crazy, right?

this is a nice taut little thrill-ride of a book. okay, it's got a lot of description of boat-architecture, so it isn't a complete thriller - melville does tend to go overboard (GET IT??) with the descriptions sometimes, but regardless, it is more emotionally engaging than, say, that book about the whale. and i haven't read a book more full of seamen since reading Torn.

to a modern reader, the situation is pretty apparent from the get-go, but th...more

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Apr 29, 2008 Teresa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This novella takes a bit of patience to get into, but once you do, you are greatly rewarded. There's suspense, there's ambiguity (ambiguity galore!). There's much to think about, I suspect, for quite a long time after you're finished.

The reader probably understands what has happened long before the American captain (we see most of the story through him) does, but there is plenty enough in the revelation that has you paging backwards and stopping yourself from paging forwards. Only once is the r...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Spock rated it 4 of 5 stars

Anno di Grazia 1799. Un incontro fra due vascelli nel mare piatto in prossimita' delle coste del sud del Cile. Uno di questi e' spagnolo ed e' malmesso. L'altro e' americano ed arriva in soccorso. L'atmosfera sul primo e' malata. Come non paragonare questo al malato declino dell'impero spagnolo ammorbato di fatalismo e rassegnazione alla giovinezza rampante piena di fiducia degli appena nati US?
Scorrendo le pagine nulla e' come sembra. In un crescendo di intensita' si arriva al climax per poi "...more

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Jul 06, 2012 míol mór rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: finished, on, jul, 19, 2011, 800, anglo-america, mariners, novella

I titoli in neretto sono altrettante canzoni (e un album) di Bob Dylan.

As I Went Out One Morning
Una mattina dell'agosto 1799 una nave statunitense, ancorata in una sperduta isola cilena per rifornirsi d'acqua, avvista un'altra nave, in pessime condizioni di manutenzione, che si rivela carica di schiavi neri quando il capitano yankee decide di salire a bordo in visita. Cpt. Delano incontra cos�� cpt. Cereno, suo collega cileno, che gli racconta di tempeste, bonacce prolungate, epidemie. Ma il c...more

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Mar 10, 2013 Mike Jensen rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I’m probably not capable of receiving this book in the way that its first readers did. Race and racial sensitivity were not issues to be bothered with then, so the racial issues, which are pretty much all I see, would not have cluttered the story for them. The older Melville criticism I have read sees this as a story about good and evil, with (not to give too much away) one faction representing evil and the other innocence.

This is turned on its head today. Oh, the same side is evil, but in a way...more

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Oct 16, 2012 Simone Scardapane added it · review of another edition

Prescindendo dalle accuse di razzismo, che a 150 anni dalla pubblicazione sanno un po' di naïf, la verità è che io questo racconto l'ho trovato noioso. La vicenda ruota attorno al personaggio di Capitan Delano, il quale, avvistata una nave negriera alla deriva, vi sale a bordo solo per trovarvi l'equipaggio decimato ed il capitano, Benito Cereno, altamente provato dalle vicissitudini del viaggio e sull'orlo del tracollo mentale. Eppure, queste stesse vicissitudini non sembrano essere come raccon...more Prescindendo dalle accuse di razzismo, che a 150 anni dalla pubblicazione sanno un po' di naïf, la verità è che io questo racconto l'ho trovato noioso. La vicenda ruota attorno al personaggio di Capitan Delano, il quale, avvistata una nave negriera alla deriva, vi sale a bordo solo per trovarvi l'equipaggio decimato ed il capitano, Benito Cereno, altamente provato dalle vicissitudini del viaggio e sull'orlo del tracollo mentale. Eppure, queste stesse vicissitudini non sembrano essere come raccontate dallo stesso Cereno, e sull'intero viaggio aleggia un forte alone di mistero... ... mistero, che qualunque lettore sufficientemente attento risolverà dopo trenta pagine (o anche prima di cominciare il libro, se decide di leggere l'inutilissima introduzione di De Cataldo all'edizione di Repubblica [che, a sua discolpa, comincia proprio con "La vicenda di Benito Cereno è nota"]), mistero che, dicevo, Melville decide di svelare ufficialmente solo alla fine del racconto stesso, lasciando il lettore in balia di altre cinquanta lunghissime pagine. Pagine nelle quali gli indizi continuano ad accavallarsi che anche Watson saprebbe metterli insieme da solo, ma Delano no, lui è estremamtente "buono" (dice Melville), incredibilmente "fesso" (diremmo noi) e decide di ignorarli tutti quanti. Il fatto che uno schiavo sfregi un marinaio con un coltello o che un altro schiavo apostrofi il proprio padrone? Dettagli trascurabili, da rifletterci sopra un pochino e poi tralasciarli. Del resto, come ci racconta lo stesso Melville, "Capitan Delano [...] era attratto dai negri [...] come altri dai Terranova", e quindi può anche perdonargli piccole scappatelle come quelle in questione, visto che, in fondo, sono creaturine dotate di "docilità dovuta alla contentezza priva di aspirazioni di una mente limitata" (dalla stessa pagina). Piccole battutine che, prescindendo nuovamente dal razzismo, rendono comunque il racconto ulteriormente pesante agli occhi di un lettore di due secoli dopo. In ogni caso, arriviamo poi al finale in cui tutto è finalmente chiarito, e che, mi dicono, propone ampi spunti di riflessione sul tema della schiavitù e dei rapporti servo/padrone. Che appena troviamo qualche Confederato superstite ancora incerto sul tema, vedi come lo facciamo riflettere!(less)

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Oct 06, 2012 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, novels

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 writing. If I have any criticism it is that it comes dangerously close to the "idiot plot." (For this to work, one of the characters has to act like an idiot.) From here on end though, to explain wha...more 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 writing. If I have any criticism it is that it comes dangerously close to the "idiot plot." (For this to work, one of the characters has to act like an idiot.) From here on end though, to explain what I did find awesome in this, I have to discuss spoilers. And they are spoilers. I had heard of this story, of what this was about. This is one of Melville's more famous works. And I wish I hadn't known--it's best I think to come at this story without knowledge, and I wouldn't read any introduction beforehand.

Spoiler below:

In a way, I wonder if it is a spoiler, because not only was the situation obvious to me but Melville signals from the start his point of view character, Captain Amasa Delano, is not to be trusted. Early on he describes him as "singularly undistrustful." This is set in 1797 during the Atlantic slave trade. The captain of an American ship, Delano, comes aboard a Spanish ship captained by Benito Cereno. From the first Delano notices that not only are the blacks on deck, who greatly outnumber the whites, unshackled, but that they are sharpening weapons. Huge clues keep coming that Captain Cereno is captive and that there has been a slave revolt on board, but Delano remains clueless. The whole novella is one of the most starkly unreliable narratives I've ever read. But here's what I find interesting. Throughout the narrative many racial, in fact very racist, comments are made. But not only are we signaled the narrator is, well, an idiot, but many of the events of the novella flat out contradict those racist assumptions--for instance docility and stupidity--for the black slaves not only successfully revolted, they're fooling Delano despite what's right before his eyes.

So, it made me wonder. Just what does Melville believe? And what does he want us to take away from this story? Given the time this was written (1855) my assumption would have been that Melville's sympathies were with the white crew, and that he'd certainly expect that's how his readers would see things. But so much in this novella subverts that easy assumption. And that I do find awesome. Even amazing given the year this was written.(less)

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Sep 28, 2010 Bruce rated it 4 of 5 stars

In this novella, Melville creates an atmosphere of mystery and ominous foreboding, persisting and intensifying as Captain Delano tries to understand the enigma of an apparently ill-fated ship with its debilitated captain, Cereno, his handful of Spanish crew, and hoard of black slaves. Delano is by turns suspicious and credulous, uneasy and seemingly gulled, convinced of sinister and ulterior designs and then reassured by his own optimism. The intense strain this places on the reader is artful, h...more

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Jan 03, 2013 Paulina Odeth rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction, american-literature, classics, 2013

Genial! Como la descripción dice; es muy corto para ser una novela y muy largo para ser una historia corta, realmente lo veo mas como la ultima, el verdadero climax de la historia es el final, la verdad que es un magnifico libro, chiquitin y todo pero muy bueno.

Admitiendo que tienes muchas descripciones hacerla de las embarcaciones y todo, creo que aun así es bastante digerible, enganchador y me gusto bastante el final, cuando ya todo lo que se venia cuestionando durante mas de la mitad del libr...more

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Oct 15, 2012 edward rathke rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a tricky book to rate. In some ways it seems explicitly racist and at other times seems the exact opposite. Also, the first half is a sort of mystery and the second half is sort of a meta-examination of the first.

It's a confounding text and I don't really know what to think of it. In regard to race: I've always read Melville as being more generous to minority groups than many and so I'm inclined to think this is more a tale of mutiny without any real regard to race. The africans are give...more

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Apr 19, 2011 Nick rated it 3 of 5 stars

A long story about a slave revolt aboard a ship, not "dramatized" but narrated (with very little dialog). Melville's narrative sentences depict characters and illustrate events so clearly that he succeeds in engaging the reader on the same level as a dramatized story. Reading his sentences is so rewarding in itself that the subject doesn't matter. To wit: some of the encyclopedic treatises on cetology in Moby-Dick are mundane but for Melville's verdurous sentences. The same goes for "Benito Cere...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Sitanta O' Mahony rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read my first Melville novella at the end of last year, Bartleby the Scrivener, and loved Melville’s use of antique language and his highly wrought sentence structures. However initially I found Benito Cereno tough going for the same reasons. It was only in retrospect I realised crafty old Melville is employing circumlocution as a means of heightening the sense of confusion in which the book abounds.

The book has to be read twice, once from the perspective of the unreliable narrator, the ‘good...more I read my first Melville novella at the end of last year, Bartleby the Scrivener, and loved Melville’s use of antique language and his highly wrought sentence structures. However initially I found Benito Cereno tough going for the same reasons. It was only in retrospect I realised crafty old Melville is employing circumlocution as a means of heightening the sense of confusion in which the book abounds.

The book has to be read twice, once from the perspective of the unreliable narrator, the ‘good’, obtuse Massachusetts sea captain, Delano, and again after the dénouement, when the scales have fallen from our eyes. The story opens with Delano going to the aid of a slave ship in distress, the San Dominick, and its enervated, aristocratic Captain, Benito Cereno. The rescued ship is from the first shrouded in mystery and subterfuge but Delano, a firm believer in good manners, good sense and gaiety, persists in his efforts to aid the stranded vessel. However his lack of perception, his naïve inability to view the world through any eyes except those set firmly in his own skull, prevents him from seeing the truth of the situation which confronts him aboard the ship. His blithe dismissal of the slave cargo surrounding him as ‘stupid’ ‘unthinking’ and naturally obsequious almost costs him his life as a result.

I don’t want to spoil the surprise, so suffice to say the difficulty of perception and the fallibility of our understanding of reality is a favourite theme of Melville’s and nowhere is it explored to greater effect than in these 60 pages. At one point Benito Cereno, the protagonist after whom the book is named, rebukes Delano: “you were with me all day; stood with me, sat with me, talked with me, looked at me, ate with me, drank with me; and yet, your last act was to clutch for a monster, not only an innocent man, but the most pitiable of all men…so far may even the best man err in judging the conduct of one with the recesses of whose condition he is not acquainted.” I don’t think it takes too much of a leap of imagination to see Delano as representing America, skirting around a danger he never quite understands, too immured in his world view to conceive of a perspective beyond his own, and all the while serenely prospering from his disastrous meddling. Meanwhile the Spanish aristocrat, Cereno, totters ‘like an invalid courtier’, the living representation of the decadence of the Old World; decadent in the true sense of the word i.e. moral decline and redundancy.

The last words spoken between these two central characters form the epigram to one of my favourite novels, Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. “The past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright sun has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. “Because they have no memory,” he dejectedly replied; “because they are not human.” “You are saved,’ cried Captain Delano, more and more astonished and pained; ‘you are saved: what has cast such a shadow upon you?’ ‘The negro.’”

Delano is too much of a genial monster to understand Cereno’s suffering from his experiences aboard the bulwark, and he returns to his world of commerce and bustle, unscathed from his experiences with the doomed San Dominick. It’s left to Cereno and the reader to ponder over the loss of the human flotsam and jetsam of the trade in life.
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Oct 30, 2010 Shanice rated it 4 of 5 stars

Ok, the language is pretty dense and kinda boring at first, but give it some time to warm up. Benito Cereno is one of those stories that stands up on its own no matter the time period in which it was written. It has a slow and very detailed beginning because its ending is so wrapped up in those beginning details, but trust me, the ending is worth the wait. I suggest reading this at the same time as a friend, because I read this for a class and the discussions it provoked made it that much better...more

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Dec 01, 2012 Ramin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a very interesting book to read. It is a novella, written a few years after Moby Dick. It's based on a real-life incident, in which an American captain, Amasa Delano, encounters a strange Spanish ship named San Dominick, captained by Benito Cereno. It is partly a political book, in which race, caste, and power relations play a role. It seems to be very different than Melville's other work.

For the first two-thirds of the book, there a disturbing cloud of ambiguity and suspicion hanging ov...more

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Aug 25, 2007 J. Shepard rated it 5 of 5 stars

So this is one of the first treatments of slavery by a white man in America that is willing to totally subvert the whole tradition. Melville is relentless in his exposure of the injustice of slavery, and the humanity in the emotion and intelligence, of the victims of slavery. It's only novella length, so check it. There were voices in that wilderness, crying out.

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Jul 25, 2011 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: assigned-reading, american-lit

A Massachusetts whaling ship is anchored off the island of Santa Maria when another ship, looking listless and forlorn, drifts toward the island. When the captain and a few men head over to investigate, they find Spanish sailors and black slaves desperate for water and supplies. The captain of this hapless lot, Benito Cereno, seems weak, aloof, and entirely unqualified to command a ship. What’s the deal?

Don’t read the back of the book or descriptions of the plot, as knowing anything about the e...more

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Apr 14, 2011 Shel added it

This story demands spoilers. A fan of Melville's works "Bartleby the Scrivener" (one of my favorite shorts) and Moby Dick I became interested in reading this after seeing it recommended as a horror story — specifically in Marvin Kaye's introduction to Dracula.

More than halfway through the story I needed a reminder, "Why was I reading this?" and "Was it really supposed to be horror?"

The story seemed a dull cross between Moby Dick and Amistad with unsettling racism.

It helps greatly to know that th...more

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Dec 30, 2010 Emily rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: classic

Highly disturbing. Some of the images are incredibly vivid, but the unwritten ones, the ones that Melville leads the readers to imagine for themselves, are even worse. I loved it, after I finished it-in the beginning it's hard to get into, but after Melville drops the first few clues, it starts to get really interesting. There's a surprise ending that I won't spoil here, but if you pay attention it's fairly easy to guess. After you finish reading it, I would recommend reading it again, and pieci...more

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Aug 28, 2012 Seth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

Melville's prose is dense, and can be a bit daunting at times. There is a loveliness there for those devoted enough to dig into it, concentrating on every word, perhaps rereading each paragraph a few times for clarity.

The story here is great, and tackles the huge theme of racism at a time when racism was pretty much a standard that white people rallied around as they subjugated the world around them. Although he doesn't end on a particularly uplifting note, he does show blacks as being cunning...more

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May 01, 2010 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars

Melville masterfully handles the ambiguous relationship between slavery, race, and class, putting the reader in the shoes of a white Christian do-gooder who is unable to imagine blacks taking control of whites. That said, no one is going to accuse Melville of getting to his point too quickly. Even though this novella is relatively short, it feels much longer. I think many modern readers will have little problem solving the "mystery" by the opening pages, and will therefore find the subsequent re...more

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Feb 01, 2012 Yorgos rated it 1 of 5 stars

My first thought, reading the description of the sea on the very first page, was this man can write. My next was that he writes far too much; each sentence runs on about two clauses too long. As I made my way through the story, I grew more annoyed at the racism in the book. I reached the end hoping for some redemptive twist, but found none: the story is astonishingly racist, the Africans are transformed from humble servants to terrifying savages and are allowed no humanity at all, and the focus...more

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Sep 12, 2011 Grace added it

I'm always a bit taken by this story, partially due to the fact that for much of the work, it's difficult to get a grasp on what is actually happening aboard the ship. That being said, what is most interesting to me is the inability of those who are in power to understand the reasons for such slave revolts, in that they do not think that the slaves capable of having such emotions or the skill to organize such a complex revolt, which in itself speaks volumes about the relationship between these g...more

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Mar 08, 2010 Mimi rated it 2 of 5 stars

Read this while taking a "Literature of American Slavery" class and once again I found Herman Melville's writing to be difficult to get through. That being said, however, this was a fascinating story about a slave rebellion aboard a Spanish slave ship, from the point of view of a white ship captain. If you can work your way through the prose, it's a powerful work...but if you find your mind a-drifting in the sea of Melvillian wordiness, watch the Steven Spielberg movie "Amistad", a great film al...more

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Jun 21, 2010 Bekah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-fiction

I was completely shocked that I liked this short novel (or long short story- your pick) so much. Meaning, I figured I wouldn't really like stuff by Herman Melville b/c he doesn't have female characters (that i know of) and um well...moby dick is really long (still haven't read that one). But I really liked this story! It was a puzzle the entire time that you are trying to figure out the whole truth. And frankly you never really do, b/c you don't ever here Babo's side of the story. Definitely a t...more

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Jul 13, 2009 Anna rated it 4 of 5 stars

I've got to re-read this, because at the time it struck me as a 5-star novel. I was so pleasantly surprised to read something by Melville that didn't induce narcolepsy (I loved my American lit teacher in high school, but I did not love Bartleby; haven't yet tackled Moby Dick and probably never will).

This book is, in so many ways, a page turning thriller, words not often reserved for classic literature. It also sparks interesting debates about race. I'm seriously considering teaching this book,...more

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Oct 26, 2012 shanties rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 19th-century, anglo-america, mariners, novella

The Yankee, the Spaniard and a shipload of negroes.

As I Went Out One Morning
Una mattina dell'agosto 1799 una nave statunitense, ancorata in una sperduta isola cilena per rifornirsi d'acqua, avvista un'altra nave, in pessime condizioni di manutenzione, che si rivela carica di schiavi neri quando il capitano yankee decide di salire a bordo in visita. Cpt. Delano incontra così cpt. Cereno, suo collega cileno, che gli racconta di tempeste, bonacce prolungate, epidemie. Ma il comportamento di Cereno...more

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Jul 30, 2011 Jessica Bukowinski rated it 3 of 5 stars

Just re-read. I meant to re-read Bartleby but mixed up the names so I got something a little heavier than I bargained for. Cap't Amaso Delano is pretty annoying (antiquated, offensive outrageous racial outlook emphasized for the story, plus he is kind of cocky in general), but Melville really does get you into the feelings of the story. I had forgotten how descriptive he is... you can read the entire plot in about 1/3 of the words he uses, but you would miss a lot if you skipped the detail. I st...more

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Jun 19, 2010 Abby rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-recommendations, for-school

This short novel is a difficult read, I'll admit to that right away. But if ever a story was worth the difficulty, this is it! The story is a rare find: mystery, suspense, and horror, but arranged in a thoughtful, meaningful work of art. At first the book drags - the first few pages are tedious with exasperatingly long and seemingly meaningless details, but once the reader begins to understand the real story - the hidden conflict beneath the treacherous mask of normality, the reading is no longe...more

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Sep 15, 2012 Polytimi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, adventure, romanticism, gothic-literature

Interesting for the atmosphere it creates and the extensive discriptions.These descriptions however are the drawback for not making me feel totally into it.It was a way too long narrative for only a few hour's plot. Maybe in a tranlation I would more easily bond with the cohesion of the text and understand more.Since I understand the work's artistic value,I rate it with 3 stars,although my opinion over the plot would be merely 2 stars.I will read it in my mother tongue as well,and I am sure the...more

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