Moby Dick Christian Brückner

Texto de la editorial: Moby Dick narra la travesía del ballenero Pequod en la obsesiva persecución del capitán Ahab de una gran ballena blanca. Ismael, un joven marino mercante —y narrador de la obra—, decide embarcarse junto con su amigo Queequeg, un experimentado arponero polinesio, en el barco del capitán Ahab. Ambos harán parte de la diversa tripulación al mando de este misterioso y autoritario lobo de mar, y pronto descubrirán que el objetivo del viaje no es otro que la persecución de una única ballena, Moby Dick, el enorme cachalote que arrancó la pierna del capitán y que ha causado estragos a todos los balleneros que han intentado darle caza.

This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that he is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick.

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Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the "best book ever written about nature," and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael's sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851.