Name: Moby Dick (Clásica)
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Author: Herman Melville

Type

Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

Publisher

Debolsillo

Topic

filosofía

Collection

clásica

Year

2010

Language

Spanish

Pages

688

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

190x125x36 cm

Weight

0.515

ISBN

8499086551

ISBN13

9788499086552

Edited in

España

Edition No.

001

Synopsis "Moby Dick (Clásica)"

Moby Dick, la novela que William Faulkner hubiera querido escribir, haalcanzado el reconocimiento y el elogio constante que merece unaconstrucción narrativa impecable. La lucha del capitán Ahab, su terribleobsesión y la mítica persecución de la enorme ballena han traspasadofronteras, consiguiendo así la indiscutible categoría de obra maestra dela literatura universal.«Moby Dick es el paradigma novelístico de lo sublime: un logro fuera delo común.»HAROLD BLOOM ENGLISH DESCRIPTION With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd. Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury 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-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. 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.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (New York, August 1, 1819-New York, September 28, 1891)1 was an American writer, novelist, poet, and essayist from the American Renaissance period. Among his most famous novels are Typee (1846), based on his experiences in Polynesia, and the novel Moby Dick (1851),1 considered his masterpiece and a classic of world literature

Between 1853 and 1855, he published a series of stories in Putnam Magazine, most of which were collected in The Piazza Tales, including two of Melville's most important narratives: the story Bartleby, the Scrivener and the novella Benito Cereno. Also featured is the story The Encantadas, consisting of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands linked by a single narrator. In 1857, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, also known as The Confidence-Man, was the last prose fiction work he published. Seeking financial stability, he abandoned writing, accepting a position as a customs inspector

In his later years, in which he also had to endure the death of two of his brothers as well as the death of two of his sons, Clarence, from tuberculosis, and Malcolm from a possible suicide, as well as the death of another of his sons at thirty-five years old, Stanwix Melville, he dedicated himself to writing poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, from 1866, is a poetic reflection on the Civil War and Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, a fictional epic poem, published in 1876. The novel Billy Budd, which he left unfinished and was posthumously published in London in 1924, is considered one of the most significant works of American literature.

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