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«La "materia" di cui tratta "Moby Dick" non è che un'abnorme espansione di un banale antefatto. Un incidente di caccia. Un episodio, dunque, assai frequente all'epoca della narrazione in un mestiere così rischioso come quello della caccia alle balene. L'incidente consiste in questo: un capitano baleniero, Achab di Nantucket, è mutilato d'una gamba nello scontro con un capodoglio, Moby Dick, noto soprattutto per la caratteristica della bianchezza. Tutto qui. Il fatto non è che una piuttosto prevedibile conseguenza dell'antefatto. Achab (ormai anziano) insegue il cetaceo per farsi vendetta (ne è ossessionato fino alla follia) della mutilazione uccidendolo. Tutto qui. L'argomento ci viene esposto da un narratore onnisciente e da un certo Ismaele – un giovane all'epoca dei fatti imbarcato sul "Pequod", il bastimento in navigazione sulle rotte di Moby Dick – che diverrà testimone oculare. Tutto qui. Bisogna leggere questo racconto per questo, senza curarsi affatto delle implicazioni (e le simboliche innanzitutto), bisogna leggerlo per quello per cui è stato concepito: narrare la lotta di un uomo (impazzito) contro un animale (astuto)... Ammirare un racconto come "Moby Dick" è possibile soltanto se si compie quell'immersione nel testo che ogni buon lettore deve fare: abbandonarsi alla lettura, alla voce (o le voci) dello scrittore, darsi alla sua affabulazione, seguirne le circonvoluzioni delle mente e dell'anima, vivendo quello che ha scritto "per divenirne il suo stile".» (dall'introduzione di Alessandro Ceni)
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Moby Dick: die Jagd nach dem weissen Wal
1994, Ensslin und Laiblin
in German
- 175. - 177. Tsd.
3770901010 9783770901012
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"Chiamatemi Ismaele."
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Source title: Moby Dick (Italian Edition)
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"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of "some unknown but still reasoning thing." Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards "the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale." Key letters from Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne are printed at the end of this volume. - Back cover.
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