"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[...]

This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi s "Shahnama" or Book of Kings, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands. Later poets and writers not only looked to Firdausi s work for a model, but supplemented its stories with other narratives or absorbed the characters and the[...]

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[...]

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[...]