Moby Dick
1851
This is a gigantic book, made for the self-aware reader. You've got to bear with so many pages of "explanatorythingsexplained" but they are worth it! The message (or should I say, messages...) is so basic, yet so deep; the characters are alarmingly touching; some moments are laugh-out-loud funny...Basically, Moby Dick gets you to the core and whether you love it or hate it, it cannot leave you indifferent. And all that, ladies and gentlemen, from a big white whale! A beautiful story on the rise and fall of greatness, which lives up to its subject. Personally, one of my favourites!
Tags: biblical allegories, the power and limits of mankind, racial prejudice, homosocial (and not just) relations, the "what-the-hell-are-we-doing-here?" question, fate, the know-it-all young white man, ship & sea, animaux, ...
