Taipi: Abenteuer in der Südsee

by Herman Melville

Overview

Herman Melville: Taipi. Abenteuer in der Südsee

Typee: A Romance of the South Seas. Narrative of a four month's residence among the natives of a valley of the marquesas islands; or, a peep at polynesian life. Erstdruck: 1846. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von Rudolph Garrigue, Leipzig, Verlag Gustav Mayer, 1847, erschienen unter dem Titel Vier Monate auf den Marquesas-Inseln oder ein Blick auf Polynesisches Leben. Die Schreibweise Typie statt des im Deutschen üblichen Taipi wurde beibehalten.

Vollständige Neuausgabe.
Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.
Berlin 2016.

Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage.

Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783843017411
Publisher:	Hofenberg
Publication date:	04/28/2016
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.59(d)
Language:	German

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15