How the fuck did Moby-Dick get so renowned? Melville is clearly an OCD autist about whales and it shows with the literal 100s of pages on whale anatomy. On a personal level, I enjoy the autism since I'm autistic myself, but I can't see how typical normies would read and enjoy this autist fest.
>>23543414>I can't see how typical normies would read and enjoy this autist fest.Maori / high yeller gay romance.
>>23543414I think it was rejected by the public when it came out. It took a while for people to get on his level.
He's still rejected by normalfags even now. The book has a 3.5 rating on goodreads and I often see people call it boring.Anyways, what's important in the book isn't necessarily just whale anatomy per se, but the way it's written (Melville is a remarkable prose stylist) and the richness of symbolism/metaphors + the themes Melville explores. It's a book about religion and a search for meaning, an attempt at a portrait of Leviathan as a symbol of divinity.
>>23543414Hundreds of pages of whale anatomy? Why wasn't I informed of this before? I must purchase a copy immediately.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1750-1849.1999.tb00014.x
>>23543414>Melville is clearly an OCD autist about whales and it shows with the literal 100s of pages on whale anatomy.It's a satirical take on man's search for knowledge, his endless accumulation of specialized categories and classifications, anticipating many 'postmodern' novels' preoccupation with this theme.
