Melville: A Novel (new York Review Classics)
by Jean Giono /
2017 / English / EPUB
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In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver
his novel
In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver
his novelWhite-Jacket
White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to
America, Melville would write
to his publisher. On his return to
America, Melville would writeMoby-Dick
Moby-Dick.
.Melville: A
Novel
Melville: A
Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer
fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in
love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel’s
challenge—to express man’s fate by writing the novel that would
become his masterpiece.
imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer
fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in
love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel’s
challenge—to express man’s fate by writing the novel that would
become his masterpiece.
Eighty years after it appeared in English,
Eighty years after it appeared in English,Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick was
translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist
Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded
Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result
was this literary essai,
was
translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist
Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded
Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result
was this literary essai,Melville: A Novel
Melville: A Novel—part biography, part philosophical
rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile’s
expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange
full circle.
—part biography, part philosophical
rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile’s
expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange
full circle.
