Description du livre
Ishmael, a restless sailor with a taste for the sea, signs aboard the whaling ship Pequod under the command of Captain Ahab—a man possessed. Haunted by a monstrous white whale that took his leg, Ahab is not on a voyage for profit or discovery, but for vengeance. He storms the oceans of the world with a single, fanatical purpose: to hunt and destroy Moby Dick.
What follows is an epic voyage into the very heart of obsession. As the Pequod plunges deeper into uncharted waters, its crew—the noble Queequeg, the logical Starbuck, the mad prophet Gabriel—is swept into Ahab’s all-consuming quest. The white whale becomes more than a beast; it is a cosmic mirror, reflecting humanity’s struggle against the indifferent forces of nature, God, and fate.
Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is the Great American Novel in its most monumental and metaphysical form. A masterpiece that blends Shakespearean drama, encyclopedic detail, and profound philosophical inquiry, it is a monumental tale of one man’s war against the deep. This is the definitive story of the hunt that becomes a meditation on madness, and the abyss of our own soul.