معرفی و دانلود رایگان کتاب Moby Dick (نهنگ سفید)

معرفی کتاب Moby Dick (نهنگ سفید)

"نهنگ سفید" یا "موبی‌ دیک"، نام یک رمان است که در سال ۱۸۵۱ میلادی توسط هرمان ملویل، نویسنده شهیر آمریکایی به‌ رشته تحریر درآمده است. ملویل در این کتاب، تلاش یک ناخدا برای صید نهنگی زال (سفیدرنگ) را شرح داده است. تنازع قدرت بشر و نهنگ سفید رنگ، موضوع مهم در این کتاب است. این کتاب ملویل را می‌توان نقدی بر تاثیر غرور بشر در انقراض نسل این جانور دانست. ماندگار بودن این اثر ملویل به دلیل نگاه حساس و موشکافانه او درباره نیات درونی و تاثیرات منفی آن بر زندگی خود و دیگران، چه همراهان و چه جانوری که صید می‌شود، است.

On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cunningly observant crew member Ishmael, Moby-Dick is the tale of the hunt for the elusive, omnipotent, and ultimately mystifying white whale—Moby Dick. On its surface, Moby-Dick is a vivid documentary of life aboard a nineteenth-century whaler, a virtual encyclopedia of whales and whaling, replete with facts, legends, and trivia that Melville had gleaned from personal experience and scores of sources. But as the quest for the whale becomes increasingly perilous, the tale works on allegorical levels, likening the whale to human greed, moral consequence, good, evil, and life itself. Who is good? The great white whale who, like Nature, asks nothing but to be left in peace? Or the bold Ahab who, like scientists, explorers, and philosophers, fearlessly probes the mysteries of the universe? Who is evil? The ferocious, man-killing sea monster? Or the revenge-obsessed madman who ignores his own better nature in his quest to kill the beast? Scorned by critics upon its publication, Moby-Dick was publicly derided during its author’s lifetime. Yet Melville’s masterpiece has outlived its initial misunderstanding tobecome an American classic of unquestionably epic proportions