Moby Dick: Ediz. integrale

by Herman Melville

Overview

EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 08/05/2020.

Attraverso gli occhi di Ismaele, narratore onnisciente e personaggio principale del romanzo (nonostante di lui non si sappia quasi nulla, se non che si è imbarcato sulla baleniera Pequod come marinaio), viene raccontata l’impresa del capitano Achab. A caccia di balene e capodogli, il coraggioso capitano ha in realtà un solo obiettivo: trovare Moby Dick, l’astuta e malvagia balena bianca, temuta da tutti i cacciatori per la sua ferocia, che anni prima l’ha mutilato con un colpo di coda, infliggendogli dolorose ferite. Terrore dei mari, la balena bianca è vista come il simbolo del male e della forza brutale della Natura, ma anche del destino e del dramma della vita umana. Nei suoi confronti il capitano Achab ha sviluppato un odio profondo: assetato di vendetta, la insegue per i mari di tutto il mondo fino a ritrovarla nell’oceano Pacifico, dove ha luogo una lotta che dura per tre lunghi giorni...Pubblicato nel 1851, per le numerose riflessioni e digressioni scientifiche, filosofiche, religiose e artistiche il romanzo Moby Dick è ritenuto il precursore del modernismo e uno dei massimi capolavori della letteratura americana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788883375200
Publisher:	Crescere
Publication date:	11/04/2015
Series:	Grandi Classici , #13
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB
Language:	Italian

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