Publisher's Synopsis
Moby Dick, the novel William Faulkner would have liked to write, has garnered the recognition and constant praise that flawless narrative construction deserves. Captain Ahab's struggle, his terrible obsession and the mythical pursuit of the huge whale have crossed borders, thus achieving the indisputable category of a masterpiece of universal literature.
Moby-DickIt is considered the great prose epic of the contemporary Western world. Conceived by Herman Melville as a North American response to the great European literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, "Moby-Dick" gathers together the romantic and gothic tradition, shaping an epic poem in singular prose that it has ended up occupying in the United States. the post of great national novel. The story of the obsessive pursuit of a whale by Captain Ahab has become an essential item of universal culture. The reader will not find a more philosophical work, a more scholarly treatise on the sea and, something no less important, a more epic adventure novel than the present one.
