Wie prägen obsessive Führungsfiguren unsere gesellschaftliche Realität? Herman Melvilles "Moby Dick" zeigt, dass der Kapitän Ahab nicht nur ein individueller Wahnsinniger, sondern ein Prototyp für moderne Machtstrukturen ist.
Herman Melvilles monumentaler Roman "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" (1851) erweist sich im 21. Jahrhundert als prophetisches Werk von verstörender Aktualität. Was zu Melvilles Lebzeiten als kommerzielle und kritische Enttäuschung galt, hat sich seit seiner Wiederentdeckung in den 1920er Jahren zu...
Couldn't resist this copy of Moby Dick. The cover is fabulous. 99p for that from Oxfam. (I have a Penguin copy which is 50% introductions and annotations. This one is just the novel. It could be my favourite novel - certainly in the top 5.)
i wrote this poem a few years ago and i still think it's pretty good:
there's no haunting without a woman at its center. http://www.agave-review.com/if-moby-dick-was-a-woman.html
#Poetry #MobyDick
Moby-Dick has weird pacing! Sometimes I find myself reading non-stop very fluidly and other times I struggle hard to finish a single chapter.
I mean, you can have several consecutive chapters with two/three pages each and suddenly you get hit by a 20 page long chapter with a secondary story or a technical sideline (like that awful chapter of weird whale typology)
Sometimes it might be of help to double-check the encyclopedia Mr. Melville 🫣
I'm counting the days when we can successfully communicate with sperm whales 🐳. We will finally be able to apologise for almost making them extinct because of our thirst for money and "progress".
And we could tell them one of the greatest books ever written by our civilization is about them! 😍
Melville would be proud. 🫶🏾
#melville #hermanmelville #mobydick #whale #spermwhale #nonhumans
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