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A review by daniel_sillman
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville
5.0
Definitely more The Whale, than Moby Dick - if the actual story was all there is it couldn’t be more than 250 pages. Still, from ‘Call me Ismael’ resonating like Beowulf’s ‘Hwæt!’, through same sex marriage, odes to sperm, tender love between men, soliloquies equal to Shakespeare’s and the villainous hubris of Ahab, its prose alone would barely let me put it down.
A critical five stars - ‘noble savages’ and racist caricatures abound albeit in a fashion of liberalism that still plagues much modern art (the latter is more unforgivable, no?)
The final three chapters are worth the relentless encyclopaedic musings on everything whales and whaling.
A critical five stars - ‘noble savages’ and racist caricatures abound albeit in a fashion of liberalism that still plagues much modern art (the latter is more unforgivable, no?)
The final three chapters are worth the relentless encyclopaedic musings on everything whales and whaling.