Moby Dick

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• Moby Dick

  Il giovane Ishmael vuole conoscere il mondo, e come tutti quelli che sono nati in riva al mare – lui è di Manhattan – sa che per farlo non c’è modo migliore che imbarcarsi per un lungo viaggio nell’oceano. Le sue letture e i racconti che gli sono giu ... (read full critics)

  mangialibri published on Fri, 17 Feb 2012

• La nave Pequod tra quattro oceani

  Il viaggio della nave Pequod tra quattro oceani e infinite digressioni, in caccia di un’enorme balena, ha reso Moby Dick (Il Narratore) di Herman Melville un classico americano. Per la prima volta, con una nuova traduzione di Alberto Rossatti, esce u ... (read full critics)

  corrieredellasera published on Mon, 16 May 2011

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  "Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shor ... (continue)

  "Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?

  But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God--so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing--straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!"

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• "Queequeg was a native of Kovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."

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• Libri Italiani
• Paperback 501 Pages
• Edition: 6
• Publisher: Garzanti (I grandi libri)
• Pub date: May 01, 1984
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