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As Ilhas Encantadas (1901)

by Herman Melville(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

9727085776 (ISBN13: 9789727085774)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Relógio D' Água Editores

review 1: Tudo o que Melville escreve me encanta... Não desiludiu portanto este "as ilhas encantadas". ... Este livro remete-nos para inícios do século XIX, época de baleeiros e de navios que tinham como função ligar o mundo. As ilhas encantadas são as pertencentes ao arquipélago de origem vulcânica de Galápagos. Vai-nos sendo descrito a fauna e flora das ilhas, o ambiente inóspito que propiciam e as histórias de homens e mulheres que por alguma razão decidiram por lá passar, é o caso: dos flibusteiros, do rei do cães e da ilha a que deu origem "Charle'a Isle", da viúva Chola e do Eremita Oberlus. As ilhas encantadas são o fim do mundo, ilhas de lava, de renegados e misantropos. Tem histórias para adormecer crianças, para por a sonhar adultos e para alimentar as ... morememórias aos mais velhos. Este livro lê-se bem, adequado para todas as idades.
review 2: as in the encantadas, there are tales of the galapagos--the place where most-holy darwin put on his thinking cap and changed the world. ha! what's so incredibly delicious about this story of the six is the 3rd sketch, as melville titled each description of one of the islands--rock rodondo.rock rodondo is this tall--250'--tower of rock inhabited mainly and only by birds....'suddenly an innumberable flight, of harmefull fowles about them fluttering cride, and with their wicked wings them oft did smight, and sore annooyed, groping in that griesly night.'ha!the birds, the birds, most-holy darwin's birds. the hoot--ha!--is that this rock, seen from a distance, is oft mistaken for the sails of some spanish admiral's ship, stacked up with glittering canvas. the birds, you see, have shat upon the rock, and there is along birdlime streaks of a ghostly white staining the tower from sea to air, readily accounting for its sail-like look from afar.ain't that a hoot! i loved it! whenever i think of the vocal output of all those "who love nature more than YOU do!" and are more than willing to take bread from your table to save some damn bug hiding under a focking sheet of plywood--i'll think of this passage--that tells me what i already know--that yea, verily, though we think we know what the hell we're doing---dont you dare question evolution, heretic! burn his ass at the stake!--we don't.the bird shit tower is darwin's theory...the only problem is...none of us will be around years in the future when people will exclaim--'they actually believed in evolution!' and snicker, much as we snicker at the idea of sailing off the end of the earth.nobody can seem to see the irony in that debate--what is scientific about a debate over two ideologies? that is science? ha ha ha!but hey, if it makes you feel better about missing sunday school, so be it, yee of great faith!tell that to the congregation assembled before the feet of most-holy darwin--all the knotty, pining for an excuse from sunday school....ha ha ha ha! but no, alas, the heretic, me...what i find so highly amusing and satisfying about the "debate" over creation/evolution is the irony so present in the assembled congregation of most-holy darwin. they will brook no "debate". the debate, as mr gore is wont to say, is over.nevermind all the "assume"..."presumably"...this that and the other thing...the debate is over, evolution is a fact...burn the heretic, or at least, minimize and marginalize them to the margins of history. how noble is man.in this sketch, too, melville says, i know not where one can better study the natural history of stange seafowl than at rodondo...so yeah, i'll have to take a look at the chronology of the two, melville and most-holy darwin....say like "natural selection"---man has been friggin with 'natural selection' the more to assuage his guilt that a shore bird should not be selected for advancement...and if that means putting binders and shackles on his fellow man to the point where the poor son-of-a-bitch starves, so be it. how noble is man.the 5th sketch, about the frigate and the ship flyaway is another macabre tale--this one about what seems like a ghost-like vessel, there and gone again. a short piece.the 7th sketch is ripe for hollywood...an isle where a man, rewarded for his efforts for the spanish king, is given an island where he sets up his kingdom, complete w/willing pioneers he recruits from peru. we've probably all read...is it jack...gaaaaa, can't think of the writer's name....he wrote the girl next door....have a copy out in the porch, but anyway, the creole, melville 'forgot his name'...ha!....sets up shop and things come to pass. so they're on this island and he has an army of dogs...etc etc...the 8th sketch, norfolk isle and the chola widow is a sad tale, full of woe. if you're a dog lover, this one pulls on the heart strings...hunilla is the chola widow....teeta & tomoeeta, two that left with her, her dogs.i enjoyed some words in this one...'if some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. events, not books, should be forbid....' etc.hood's isle and the hermit oberlus, sketch ninth...another good one....today wer have hermit oberlus abounding in plenty...like t.s. eliot said...about the ribbon roads...man living on them, not knowing or caring who his neighbor be unless his neighbor make too great a disturbance....or in other stories, i forget where....here was a man who so hated society that he lived aloof, miles away.people lament the city, the congregants there, but all i see around me are those who have so shunned the society of men that they are islands amongst themselves. we pride ourselves on being "diverse" yet we are anything but. if hell is other people, that is no where more evident than in the hatred and hostility i've no doubt my words about most-holy darwin will trigger. man dis-aggregates more than he congregates and if he congregates, you can bet that there those on the out looking in will get the shit beat out of them, sooner, rather than later. you see this on-line, as well, as we have terms such as "newbies" "trolls" etc, often misapplied simply due to the heat of the moment and the ability that anonymity offers.there's a great image in this one about the hermit: plebian garter snakes to this lord anaconda... less

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