| Titre | Moby-Dick et la question du livre | |
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| Auteur | André Bleikasten | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 50, novembre 1991 Herman Melville. | |
| Page | 14 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
Moby-Dick and the Question of the Book
In Moby-Dick, Melville pursued the old Western dream, revived in the 19th century by German Romanticism, of the liber mundi, the unique and absolute Book that would encompass the totality of knowledge. The world's text, however, can no longer be authenticated by God's signature, as it was in the Middle Ages. Its totality has broken into fragments ; the new Bible is nothing more than « the draught of a draught. » Moby-Dick invites both a sym-bolic reading, according to the totalizing spirit of analogy, and a more modern dia-bolic reading, acknowledging the disorder and uncompletedness of a fragmented world. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1991_num_50_1_1441 |
