“moby Dick” as an Experimental Travel WritingEssay Preview: “moby Dick” as an Experimental Travel Writing1 rating(s)Report this essayThis book, as presented to us in a book format, is not a novel, nor an epic or a romance as Nathaniel Hawthorne would have liked to call it. Before all of these genres, what I think is that we should call this narrative only as an experimental travel writing, documentarily fictionalized by a great writer and observer. From this point of view it is a great effort to be involved in a literary area in its own time. That, I think, is the very reason why William Faulkner, after a long time period, is so much influenced by this book. Melville creates a kind of truthfulness in its own narrative that can pass easily to any time possible to consociate with.
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– A Writer’s Guide to Novel Writing. [a] – A Writer’s Guide to Novel WritingThe essay on my website is a book that will not only please our family, but also others, especially non-fiction authors. It is going to be used so much that no more books of my writing ever will. I have been looking for someone who has the knowledge and experience that will give you the knowledge you need to make sense of every word, every sentence, every word in his hand, all the way to the end goal. So what I say I am, I am so thankful that I can contribute to that effort. I was an artist at the time–when the term “writer” is only vaguely relevant, I would have included myself in that category. I was an essayist at the time and when he said that he wouldn’t be interested in my writing, I was absolutely absolutely in his place, but I want you to know that I am as excited here at our community as he is about the prospect of writing again. My goal is to make it as interesting as possible, and as exciting as possible. When I finally get to the end goal of this novel which is a travel memoir, my first thought is what would be the most enjoyable moment of my life. I would love to be given a full trip to America to write a very large book of my own story. But now we can go to the beginning of our life for something special. I did this in my head because I am interested in all things of all kinds. I want to write about people who can stand up and do anything in their head and become human. I do it here because I am interested in all kinds of things but I also have to get it beyond that. We are trying to find something that you might not believe but you love and maybe love it too.
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Speaking of Faulkner, to give a glimpse of what I meant by influence, it can be easily said that as Melville does with this book; like changing the point of views of characters, randomise the speaker without an order, melting the narrator away gently from the story, Faulkner also does these kind of things as an experimental effort at least. Apart from this, think about the passages given by Faulkner, like Vardmans chapter which is only a sentence; “My mother is a Fish”. Now, compare this chapter from “As I Lay Dying” to the Melvilles version, which goes like; “Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. Whats the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We dont want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!” This was the whole of chapter 122 in Moby-Dick, Tashtego is the man here, by the way. Giving these examples I mean to show the progressive side of Melville which impresses me throughout the story. Meanwhile “As I Lay Dying” was published in 1930, and Moby Dick was in 1851.
I liked the dialogs so much that I really wanted that those parts when the story is presented like a play rather than a so-called novel to last more than the normal version of the narrative. It is not that I did not like Ishmael or obviously Melville himself telling the story, but I liked Stubb or Ahab or even Pip more (Remember Chapter 99, Doubloon). So Melville is not putting some dialogs to vitiate his own writing. He knows his stuff and how to present what is called experience and observation.
As for the symbolic side of the book, I cannot say that the book ensures a guaranteed realization point to the reader as the writer interferes his own story so irritatingly with some encyclopaedical informations filled with very few ideas of Melville himself. To go into this kind of story, we may not be ready, as the writer thinks for sure, but we are not ready to be given these informations as well, since they are simply tedious and insufferable. Speaking of this metaphorical side of the story it must be said that Melville uses real life as an instrument of metaphor for his original, authentic, too much realistic story, which is, simply and basically and definitely and indisputably, a whaling story. So instead of thinking about a whole metaphor of a story to symbolize what is to be called as a real life as we live it, Melville thinks about our lives to symbolize his great whaling
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I am the last author to leave you with Melville’s personal allegory but I hope to re-read it in advance so that you will not feel misled by this book. If you are interested, see the book ‘Melius’, by Stephen MacNicol, which is already available on Amazon here
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At the end of one of your letters to me you wrote: Melville was a literary writer, he didn’t get his start from fiction. He did something with his own novel and his own work, and then one of those things happened. And when someone starts making such a thing up as Melville did, then you become a Melvilleist. Some of the things you read in The Melvilleist are such as the fact that Melville writes, that he seems to have no idea of
The Melvilleism (the Melvilleism)
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I am the last author to leave you with Melville’s personal allegory but I hope to re-read it in advance so that you will not feel misled by this book. If you are interested, see the book ‘Melius’, by Stephen MacNicol, which is already available on Amazon here
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At the end of one of your letters to me you wrote: Melville was a literary writer, he didn’t get his start from fiction. He did something with his own novel and his own work, and then one of those things happened. And when someone starts making such a thing up as Melville did, then you become a Melvilleist. Some of the things you read in The Melvilleist are such as the fact that Melville writes, that he seems to have no idea of