"Moby-Dick", einer der größten Romane der Weltliteratur, in einer Neuübersetzung, die Maßstäbe setzt: Die Geschichte des weißen Wals und seines von Haß getriebenen Jägers Kapitän Ahab wird in ihrer unendlichen Vielstimmigkeit, in ihrem Pathos und ihrer Präzision erzählt. Mit einem Anhang, der zu immer neuen Entdeckungen in diesem aus den tiefsten Quellen von Mythos und Philosophie schöpfenden Meisterwerk einlädt.
Über den Autor Herman Melville
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Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.
