tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post2868125532401311779..comments2024-01-02T15:37:04.858-05:00Comments on Caravana de recuerdos: Moby-Dick; or, The WhaleRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-11620685875195016482010-06-06T00:00:01.797-04:002010-06-06T00:00:01.797-04:00¡Hola, Richard!! Veo que la novela no te pareció t...¡Hola, Richard!! Veo que la novela no te pareció tan larga como a mí (upss). Y es que algunos capítulos me abrumaban por lo descriptivos, pero muy pronto aparecian otros muy coloridos y colmados de poesía. <br />Leerla en su idioma original debe ser maravilloso. <br />¡Un abrazo!!RebecaTzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04610915499580085815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-37527723124677572482010-05-26T12:58:15.654-04:002010-05-26T12:58:15.654-04:00Además caben remarcar dos aspectos brillantes: la ...Además caben remarcar dos aspectos brillantes: la forma en que Ishmael, como narrador, es consciente de que su "público" es de tierra firme (de ahí que sea tan didáctico en su manera de explicarnos todo lo relativo al mar a quienes nunca fuimos marinos); y también la forma en que Melville incorpora en la narración toda clase de material no narrativo —el tratado de cetaceología, el ensayo sobre los significados del color blanco—, material que suele eliminarse de las adaptaciones para niños, pero cuya inclusión en el original resulta un procedimiento sumamente contemporáneo.<br /><br />Y fijate qué actual puede ser el texto de Melville:<br /><br />http://elpezvolador.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/estados-unidos-afganistan-y-moby-dick/<br /><br />Saludos, hace mucho que no pasaba por aquí (¡Mucho Borges, por lo que veo!).Cristalhttp://www.elpezvolador.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-35147448566617261652010-05-26T01:49:07.136-04:002010-05-26T01:49:07.136-04:00*Emily and Jill: My glasses are still fogged up fr...*Emily and Jill: My glasses are <em>still</em> fogged up from Frances' comment! Of course, it was something like 90 degrees and muggy here today, too...<br /><br />*Simon: I think <em>Moby-Dick</em> inspires that kind of back and forth indecision somehow (+ snarky first sentences from people who post about it in the month of May). All I can say is that I'm not sure why I waited so long to read it but that I'm glad that I finally did!<br /><br />*Claire: Ha ha, good for you and your sister! By the way, have you read Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s nonfiction <em>Two Years Before the Mast</em>? It's said to have been an inspiration for Melville on the road to <em>Moby-Dick</em>, and everybody I know who's read it says it's great stuff. My dad sent me a copy last year I think, so I hope to get around to that before too long.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-79125851531490638222010-05-25T19:48:56.784-04:002010-05-25T19:48:56.784-04:00Amen, brother. :) GREATNESS all the way!
I just c...Amen, brother. :) GREATNESS all the way!<br /><br />I just convinced my sister to read this. She started digging in a few days ago and totally loving it. She's also gushing nonstop.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-47163650552638413112010-05-24T15:28:56.332-04:002010-05-24T15:28:56.332-04:00Like Nymeth I have to say that I go back and forth...Like Nymeth I have to say that I go back and forth on whether I want to read Moby Dick or not. I just can't quite decide. Its never a book I have felt that I should read like I know that it has been for some (not you!). <br /><br />I loved the opening line of this post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-8588934750092281422010-05-23T16:16:02.338-04:002010-05-23T16:16:02.338-04:00Emily, I agree! I saw the steam coming off of thi...Emily, I agree! I saw the steam coming off of this blog all the way in the desert! Frances, you could flesh out that comment (so to speak) into a book - maybe add a vampire - and it would be a best seller!rhapsodyinbookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07041412748239010264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-38307566794935087932010-05-23T12:40:34.339-04:002010-05-23T12:40:34.339-04:00Haha, FRANCES! I'm shocked! ;-) You are hi...Haha, FRANCES! I'm shocked! ;-) You are hilarious, lady.Emilyhttp://www.eveningallafternoon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-29218562526402357852010-05-22T22:52:31.793-04:002010-05-22T22:52:31.793-04:00*Ana: I myself started Moby-Dick at least twice be...*Ana: I myself started <em>Moby-Dick</em> at least twice before, enjoying what I read both times, before finally finishing it this time around. Timing is everything, I agree! Great point, too, about how the types of readers we are is something that evolves over time.<br /><br />*Mel U: I think my previous Melville reading was limited to "Bartleby," <em>Billy Budd</em> and maybe <em>Benito Cereno</em>, so I look forward to experiencing/reexperiencing that versatility you mention. In the meantime, I agree that <em>Moby-Dick</em>'s prose is "completely majestic"!<br /><br />*Emily: Have to admit that I enjoyed looking back over all those "luscious" passages to select a few to highlight in the post! Kept thinking about that enigmatic <em>2666</em> quote, "the sea is the danger," throughout the reading of <em>Moby-Dick</em>, too. Will have to revisit your <em>Confidence Man</em> post to see how soon I want to get around to that one.<br /><br />*Amateur Reader: I've actually been stealthily making my way through your and Nicole's Melville posts of late, and I'm afraid that I may have to steal your idea and read all of Melville at some point also. Anyway, thanks for the info on the first five novels and the heads up about looking at such a project as a journey!<br /><br />*Jill: Ha ha, rather violent imagination you got there, sport! I don't think I've ever been tsked tsked on my blog before, so by way of explanation I should note that I just couldn't resist launching one of Ahab's harpoons at <em>my</em> target after reading all that bitching and moaning about how dull <em>Moby-Dick</em> was during that readalong earlier in the year. I don't want to be mean, but those people should stick to reviewing ARC romance novels if you ask me! :)<br /><br />*Gavin: Thanks as always for the kind words--loved this book so much that it was hard to put together a post that did any kind of justice to how I felt about it. Also glad to hear that I'm not the only new <em>Moby-Dick</em> reader who is searching out more Melville stuff these days!<br /><br />*Frances: Wow, now that's a steamy anecdote worthy of your blogging nickname, Book Temptress. Too funny! Seriously, though, I knew you liked <em>Moby-Dick</em> but had no idea it was that big a favorite of yours. Can totally understand wanting to get lost in that language, though. I just wish I hadn't waited so long to dive in, though.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-56167153113232690092010-05-22T14:23:36.164-04:002010-05-22T14:23:36.164-04:00"For me, it all begins and ends with Melville..."For me, it all begins and ends with Melville's prose."<br /><br />Moby Dick is one of my five favorite books for this very reason. I get lost in the language. Once tried to tell someone that Moby Dick was like fantastic sex from which you did not want to emerge and felt a little surprised and disoriented when it was over. As you might expect, my friend took my drink away and laughingly told me to shut up.<br /><br />Would love to re-read some sort works too. Love Billy Budd especially.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597485569740436880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-69328972556024749162010-05-22T11:49:20.753-04:002010-05-22T11:49:20.753-04:00Yippie! What a wonderful review, Richard. Since ...Yippie! What a wonderful review, Richard. Since reading this monster over the winter I am searching for used copies of Melville's work, now I'm adding Delbanco's biography to the list.Gavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12865699135545209220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-17997725779638420162010-05-21T21:07:03.941-04:002010-05-21T21:07:03.941-04:00I do love the beginning, and since reading it I ha...I do love the beginning, and since reading it I have often thought, when plotting to acquire a humvee with a 50-caliber gun mounted on the top for the purpose of taking out people who are driving under the speed limit in the left lane, that perhaps what I really need is to "get to sea as soon as I can."<br /><br />But oh Richard, Richard: "lightweight, meme-obsessed blogger" - tsk, tsk. I think now I truly have seen the great white whale!rhapsodyinbookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07041412748239010264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-24110971605829258372010-05-21T21:05:24.000-04:002010-05-21T21:05:24.000-04:00Nicole and I have both, sort of coincidentally, be...Nicole and I have both, sort of coincidentally, been working our way up to <i>Moby-Dick</i> (which I read many, many years ago).<br /><br />None of the first five Melville books come anywhere near <i>Moby-Dick</i>. But they make for a great journey, watching Melville, step by step, become the writer of <i>Moby-Dick</i> and "Bartleby" and so on.<br /><br />Anyway, I assume we'll both read it soon, with "soon" remaining undefined. Nicole has written about all of this more than I have.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-32277832692378966562010-05-21T19:42:03.302-04:002010-05-21T19:42:03.302-04:00It's a great one, alright! Luscious excerpts ...It's a great one, alright! Luscious excerpts you chose, too. I'm probably due for a re-read before TOO very long, but haven't felt called to it quite yet...in the meantime am heartily enjoying the Melville love you & Claire have been adding to the interwebs!<br /><br />On a related Melville note, his late novel <em>Confidence Man</em> is extremely odd, in a way that was thought-provoking to me even if it doesn't come close to sustaining the same kind of stylistic brilliance as <em>Moby Dick</em>. What an interesting writer!Emilyhttp://www.eveningallafternoon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-25646509021122875842010-05-21T18:23:49.255-04:002010-05-21T18:23:49.255-04:00Melville was a very versatile writer-his marvelous...Melville was a very versatile writer-his marvelous short story, Barlelby the Scrivner is very different in style from Moby Dick-Moby Dick is really not that long anyway-the prose is just completely majestic-Mel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-79761504710053688722010-05-21T17:12:32.142-04:002010-05-21T17:12:32.142-04:00I go back and forth on whether or not I want to re...I go back and forth on whether or not I want to read Moby Dick. It's not so much the length that makes me hesitate, but the fact that past attempts were not exactly successful. But - I'm not the same reader I was even a month ago, let alone years ago. Your post makes me strongly lean towards yes.Ana S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16092495983972185943noreply@blogger.com