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Moby Dick 胡.. 李. 王. MOBY DICK Herman Melville ● Born: August 1, 1819,New York● Died: September 28,1891 ● Occupation: novelist, short story writer, teacher, sailor, lecturer, poet…● Genres(流派)： Travelogue, Sea story, Gothic Romanticism(哥特式浪漫主义), Allegory(寓言)...● Literary movement: Romanticism, and Skepticism(怀疑理论); precursor(前导) to Modernism, precursor to absurdism(荒诞主义) and existentialism (存在主义) ● Influences: William Shakespeare,John Milton, Nathaniel Hawthorne . 《泰比》(Typee,1846) 《奥姆》(Omoo,1847) 《玛迪》(Mardi,1849) 《雷德伯恩》(Redburn,1849) 《白外套》(White-Jacket,1850) 《白鲸》又译《莫比.迪克》(Moby-Dick,1851) 《皮埃尔》(Pierre,1852) 《广场的故事》(Piazza Tales,1856) ——中短篇小说集 《骗子》(The Confidence-Man,1857) 《南北战争诗集》又译《战事集》(Battle Pieces:Civil War poems,1866) 《克拉瑞尔》(Clarel,1876) ——长诗 《约翰·玛尔和其他水手》(John Marr and Other Sailors，1888) ——诗集 《梯摩里昂》(Timoleon,1891) ——诗集 《水手比利·巴德》(Billy Budd,1924) [于作者去世后出版]　  ●Moby-Dick was published in 1851 during what has been called the American Renaissance, which saw the publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Toms Cabin (1852) as well as Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), and the first edition of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855). ●With the publication of Typee,which was an immediate popular success, Melville was soon became known as theman who lived among cannibals(食人部落). ●MOBY DICK escape the romantic travel-tale mode of Melvilles earlier works and to become a unique and enduring work.But at that time, the book was not popular with readers. The public was not ready for its brooding(阴险的) sometimes frighting speculations about man and God and the universe. They wanted the simple,romantic narratives of the Typee and Omoo sort.  故事大意 Moby Dick,全书的焦点集中于南太平洋一条名叫莫比敌的白鲸，以及捕鲸船皮廓德(Pequod)号的船长亚哈(Ahab)如何对它有不共戴天的仇恨。亚哈在一次航行中被莫比敌咬掉一条腿，立志报仇，指挥皮廓德号环航全球追踪，终于发现了它。经过三天放下小艇紧追。虽然刺中了这条白鲸，但它十分顽强狡猾，咬碎了小艇，也撞沉了大船。它拖着捕鲸船游开时，绳子套住哈，把他绞死了。全船人尽皆灭顶。只有一个水手借着由棺材改制的救生浮子而逃得性命。整个故事以这个水手伊希梅尔(Ishmael)自述的方式展开。 The Town-Ho’