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Anonymous

Book art 09/14/25(Sun)16:35:27 No.24723557

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Book art Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)16:35:27 No.24723557 Archived

What's your favorite art associated with a story?

Picrelated is "Moby Dick" by artist Gérard DuBois.

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)18:20:56 No.24723758

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)18:20:56 No.24723758

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>>24723557
Harry Clarke's illustrations for Faust are nice.

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)18:21:58 No.24723760

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)18:21:58 No.24723760

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>>24723758
Artzybasheff did some find book illustrations before he went heavily into commercial art.

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)19:19:06 No.24723896

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)19:19:06 No.24723896

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Cows by Matthew Stokoe is a weird book I don't know if I entirely like, but this artwork from deviantart is really good.

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)20:00:12 No.24723985

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)20:00:12 No.24723985

>>24723557
What the fuck kind of perspective is this? Is the whale the size of a skyscraper? Is it floating mid air?

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)20:02:22 No.24723990

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)20:02:22 No.24723990

>>24723985
It's God

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)20:12:14 No.24724013

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)20:12:14 No.24724013

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Anyone here read Rudin?

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)20:21:16 No.24724030

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)20:21:16 No.24724030

>>24723985
the whale's supposed to look fucking enormous

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)20:46:20 No.24724065

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)20:46:20 No.24724065

>>24723990
>>24724030
Isn't the point of Moby Dick that the whale is just a whale and Ahab is a crazy retard for obsessing over a dumb animal?

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)20:50:59 No.24724072

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)20:50:59 No.24724072

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Also see https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23989869

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)21:02:20 No.24724087

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)21:02:20 No.24724087

>>24723985
It’s a direct reference to this line in the book
>strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside, except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall
It’s about the magnified importance of the whale in Ahab’s mind and his ceaseless awareness of it, as if it were a constant feature of his environment.

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)21:10:51 No.24724104

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)21:10:51 No.24724104

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The work my sister did for my novel, Between Two Valleys.

jerdarious.org/betweentwovalleys

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)21:12:06 No.24724108

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)21:12:06 No.24724108

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>>24724104

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)21:13:10 No.24724111

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)21:13:10 No.24724111

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>>24724108

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)21:16:00 No.24724116

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)21:16:00 No.24724116

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>>24723557
I love Aubrey Beardsley's work for Oscar Wilde.

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)21:21:31 No.24724128

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)21:21:31 No.24724128

>>24724065
No, the point is that whales are scary and we need to kill them

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)21:22:33 No.24724131

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)21:22:33 No.24724131

>>24724104
>>24724108
>>24724111
These are nice! Although I'd hesitate to post anything a sibling did on 4chan of all places

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)21:27:08 No.24724135

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)21:27:08 No.24724135

>>24724128
>t. Harvard English Lit professor

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)21:52:40 No.24724174

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)21:52:40 No.24724174

>>24723985
This is what modern society does to people

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)22:20:33 No.24724232

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)22:20:33 No.24724232

>>24724065
No, not really. Have you read it? When people say that The Whale is a whale, it's half joking, but also serious in that "whale" here comes with all the meanings and associations of whale that the book elaborates on. I'd actually say that "is -just- a whale" is the opposite of what is meant

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)22:22:55 No.24724240

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)22:22:55 No.24724240

>>24723557
>>24723758
>>24723760
>>24723896
>>24723985
>>24723990
>>24724013
>>24724030
>>24724065

Retard alert

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)22:26:32 No.24724245

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)22:26:32 No.24724245

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Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)22:31:35 No.24724258

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)22:31:35 No.24724258

>>24724232
>It's not just a whale, it comes with meanings and associations.
So it's just a whale?

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)22:34:10 No.24724263

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)22:34:10 No.24724263

>>24724258
Not to Captain Ahab

Anonymous
09/14/25(Sun)22:41:06 No.24724279

Anonymous 09/14/25(Sun)22:41:06 No.24724279

>>24724258
What does "it's just an x" mean to you? I'm ESL, but to me, it sounds reductive, and I thought that was the point of the phrase. Reductionism is the opposite of what Melville does for the whale. I probably can't express myself any clearer than this, sorry.

Anonymous
09/15/25(Mon)04:32:31 No.24724762

Anonymous 09/15/25(Mon)04:32:31 No.24724762

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Gustave Doré's depictions of The Divine Comedy course but he also did Don Quixote

Anonymous
09/15/25(Mon)05:13:07 No.24724793

Anonymous 09/15/25(Mon)05:13:07 No.24724793

>>24723758
I listened to an audio drama of Faust a few months ago. It was amateur as fuck (made part 2 feel like even more of a fever dream than it already is), but Mephistopheles was played by an old Chinese guy that I found really fitting. Exactly how I imagine that depiction of him would sound

Anonymous
09/15/25(Mon)07:24:40 No.24724932

Anonymous 09/15/25(Mon)07:24:40 No.24724932

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