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诺贝尔文学奖得主鲍勃·迪伦 向全世界推荐的经史诗典小说
“如果太阳侮辱了我，我也会戳穿它。”
船长亚哈，纵横海上四十年，是水手们眼中神一般的人物。
有一天，他被一头名为“莫比·迪克”的大白鲸，咬断左腿。为了杀死白鲸，重获尊严，亚哈精心策划了一场动人心魄的复仇计划……
赫尔曼·麦尔维尔 (Herman Melville, 1819—1891)
美国著名小说家、散文家、诗人。被誉为“美国的莎士比亚”。
1819年生于纽约，出身名门望族。后因家道中落，15岁的他放弃学业，打工以补贴家用。
1837年乘船前往英国。1841年成为捕鲸船水手，开始漫长的海上漂泊。在枯燥的航行、与食人族同住、被放逐、军舰服役等之后，于1844年登岸。这段坎坷却丰富的经历对他产生了深远的影响。
1845年开始创作小说。
1851年《白鲸》出版，直到70年后才得到广泛重视。
1891年9月，依然穷困潦倒，病逝于纽约。
至今，《白鲸》被视为美国文学史上伟大的小说之一。
马永波
诗人、作家、翻译家。国内英美后现代诗歌的主要译介者与研究者，现任与南京理工大学史学研究中心。
1986年开始发表文学作品，至今出版著译60余部，个人代表作《树篱上的雪》《词语中的旅行》等。
2016年签约作家榜，历时一年倾心翻译了全本《白鲸》。
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Group project goes wrong because the leader is way too into whales.funnily enough, that's happened to me in real life
I really hate it when I can't connect with some of the greatest works of art. Moby Dick is sadly one of these!I really tried to enjoy it, but couldn't! It's one of the very few classics which bore me to death. In my opinion, there's very little development when it comes to the characters and the story-line itself. I expected a lot from the author, especially that the book is thick. I told myself here's a story that's going to keep me entertained for a while, but instead I only found an annoyingly massive amount of fishery technicalities. A flat bulk of information to fill the chapters so that the real story can be rewritten in no more than a quarter of the actual number of pages. What bugs me up about this is the uselessness of such details in connection with the direction in which the story moves. The reader could perfectly do without most of that massive amount of waling fishery details! Besides, the characters are mostly flat. There's neither will nor power of will directing their steps and guiding their actions. Take the narrator as an instance. He's a passive observer of everything; merely a man relating his inexistence in the tale. Ahab is another in spite of all his depicted mightiness which remains but empty words. What is he if not simply a stubborn, half-mad, old captain directing a set of dummies who are so flat and two dimensional that I can't even attempt to put them to scrutiny. One thing I know for sure, I am never going to read that book again as I am already giving it away to any student in need of a free copy! And apart from the occasional beauty of its prose and the images which come to the forth every now and then, I regret spending so much time reading it.
Call me Ishmael. Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write a mighty book about a mighty theme and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting.