白鲸（牛津世界经典系列） Moby-Dick

基本信息

Edited by:Hester Blum

Series:Oxford World's Classics

Format:Paperback / softback 576 pages

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Imprint:Oxford University Press

Edition:2 Revised edition

ISBN:9780198853695

Published:26 May 2022

Weight:394g

Dimensions:131 x 197 x 35 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

捕鲸船“裴廓德”号船长亚哈，在一次捕鲸过程中，被凶残聪明的白鲸莫比-迪克咬掉了一条腿，因此他满怀复仇之念，一心想追捕这条白鲸，竟至失去理性，变成一个独断独行的偏热症狂。他的船几乎兜遍了全世界，经历辗转，终于与莫比-迪克遭遇。经过三天追踪，他用鱼叉击中白鲸，但船被白鲸撞破，亚哈被鱼叉上的绳子缠住，带人海中。全船人落海，只有水手以实马丽（意为被遗弃的人）一人得救，来向人们讲述这个故事。作者赋予莫比·迪克的白色象征天真无邪和恐怖，以白鲸象征善和恶的混合，这也是人世的基本状况。这部小说以充实的思想内容、史诗般的规模和成熟、深思性质的文笔，成为传世佳作。

"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;-& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this."

Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and wondrous moments. Narrator Ishmael, along with the whaleship Pequod's other "meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways", is beguiled into joining Captain Ahab in his vengeful pursuit of the white whale that "dismasted" him. But along the way, Ishmael takes the reader along many a detour into variegated ways of knowing. In a tone "strangely compounded of fun and

fury", Moby-Dick brings outlandish curiosity to bear on the multitudinous, oceanic scale of our diverse world.

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作者简介

赫尔曼·麦尔维尔

Herman Melville (1819—1891)

美国天才作家，被誉为“美国的莎士比亚”。

生于纽约，13岁丧父，失学。15岁独自谋生，先后做过银行职员、杂货店店员、农场工人、乡村教师。

17岁逃到船上做水手。22岁登上捕鲸船，开始漫长的海上漂泊。期间，他弃船逃走，受困野蛮人部落，还被关进过塔希提岛上的监狱里，然后又重回大海，当捕鲸工和水手。26岁开始创作小说，28岁结婚。人到中年，遭遇丧子之痛，家庭破裂。

晚年专注写诗，3次自费出版诗集。

72岁时，在贫病交加中逝于纽约。

麦尔维尔生前几乎无法靠写作养活自己，过世后三十年才声名日隆，代表作《白鲸》成为世界文学史上绕不开的经典奇书。

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.

海丝特·布鲁姆是宾夕法尼亚州立大学的英语教授。她是《桅杆上的风景》的作者。布卢姆是赫尔曼·梅尔维尔协会的前任主席，她的荣誉包括古根海姆研究金和国家基金会的多项资助。

她的荣誉包括古根海姆奖学金和国家人文科学基金会的多项资助。她参加了查尔斯-W-摩根号的第38次航行，这是世界上一艘幸存的木制鲸鱼船，也是麦尔维尔所乘坐的阿库什内特号的姊妹船。

Hester Blum is Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (2008) and The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (2019), as well as several edited volumes. Blum is past president of the Herman Melville Society, and her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple grants

from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She participated in the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, the world's last surviving wooden whaleship and the sister ship to the Acushnet, in which Melville sailed.