Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co[...]
Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of[...]
A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.[...]
This title is published to coincide with the becentenary of Horace Walpole's death. Horace Walpole was letter writer so energetic and fertile that his collected correspondence occupies forty volumes. Yet his energy and fertility were matched by such perceptiveness and wit, and his thoughts are expre[...]
Join Captain Ahab, an eerily compelling madman, as he pursues an unholy war against a creation as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. In his monumanical quest, Ahab focuses his distilled hatred and suffering - and that of generations before him - against one single creation, and pursue[...]
Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' - not only the whale but[...]
"Melvilles weltberühmter "Moby-Dick" ist ein Abenteuerroman im doppelten Wortsinn: Mit seiner Geschichte vom fanatischen Kapitän Ahab und seiner Jagd nach dem Weißen Wal erzählt der Roman eines der packendsten Seeabenteuer der Weltliteratur. Mit seinem enzyklopädischen Anspruch unternimmt der R[...]
Focusing on the critical notions of disunity and incoherence so frequently raised in discussions of 'Moby-Dick', the study argues that Melville's 1851 novel depicts two radically different realities governed by principles of continuity and discontinuity respectively, each of which is associated with[...]
"Moby Dick," la novela que William Faulkner hubiera querido escribir, ha alcanzado el reconocimiento y el elogio constante que merece una construccion narrativa impecable. La lucha del capitan Ahab, su terrible obsesion y la mitica persecucion de la ballena han traspasado fronteras, consiguiendo asi[...]
Moby-Dick eller Hvalen erMelvilles store verdensklassiker om kaptajn Akabs kamp mod den hvide hval. Smukt illustreret med træsnit af Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen.
Herman Melville (1819-1891), født i New York. Efter en række forskellige job stak han til søs som tyveårig og rejste[...]
»Respektløst kan man sige, at Moby Dick er komponeret med en skovl,« skriver Carsten Jensen i sit forord til Flemming Chr. Nielsens nyoversættelse af Herman Melvilles berømte fortælling. Men det bjerg af en encyklopædisk spændingsroman, som blev skovlet på plads i midten a[...]
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is the sixth book by American writer Herman Melville. The work is an epic sea story of Captain Ahab's voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a sperm whale. A contemporary commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, its reputation rose durin[...]
Harold Blooms introduktion till Herman Melvilles Moby Dick. »Underbar. Harold Bloom är en av de stora pedagogerna. Han skriver med passion om författarna han älskar och vars verk bejakar livet.« | John Banville, Irish Times HAROLD BLOOM, född 1930 i Bronx, New York, är en av vår tids mest[...]
Den stora valen Moby Dick är kapten Ahabs största fiende. I en tidigare strid med valen har Ahab förlorat sitt ben. Nu beger han sig ut på jakt efter det väldiga djuret. En ung man ombord, Ismael, blir vittne till kaptenens totala besatthet och märker att han är beredd att offra allting, sitt[...]
En sjöman, som vill att vi kallar honom Ismael (vi får aldrig veta hans riktiga namn), kommer en iskall vinterkväll till värdshuset Valfisken i New Bedford. Några lediga rum finns dessvärre inte, och Ismael tvingas välja mellan att tillbringa natten utomhus eller att dela säng med en[...]