/lit/ - Literature

who?

>>12799256
Captain Ahab.

>>12799284
Alluh Akbar

>>12799284
Literally who is that?

>>12799284
Captain of what?

And because of this, he gets himself and everyone else killed.

>>12799359
He punches the suns lights out?

>>12799365
Nah, that would’ve been kinda bizarre and probably effected the overall quality of the book.

>>12799371
It would've been a pretty fucking neat twist though

>>12799365
If that happened I'm not even sure what Moby-Dick would be classified as in the literary canon nowadays. Maybe he could have jumpstarted some wacky radical theology-based absurdist movement decades before its time as a direct counter to the American transcendentalists actually Melville just does this himself anyway when he wrote the absolute hodgepodge that's The Confidence Man which makes Henry James look like a joke

>>12799359
As far as I'm aware most of the Godcucks in history died as well. At least he went down fighting.

>>12799451
And all of the sailors too? I wonder the life quality of their families after their deaths.
Try thinking beyond internet jokes. You might enjoy it.

>>12799286
The captain obsessed with Moby Dick

>>12799216
most metal book in the canon

>>12799303
The Pequod

>>12799421
The Confidence Man is actually a really great and interesting book.

>>12799421
The Confidence-Man is one of the most interesting overlooked novels in the American canon. It's like a postmodern Canterbury Tales before modernism even existed.

>>12799569
the what?

Does anyone but anglocucks read Moby Dick for real?

>>12799712
I'm a literature professor at an esteemed university in paris, rest assured Melville and most other american authors are regarded as something of a joke here.

>>12799723
You're a fraud, the americans are all the rage in French literary circles right now. Frenchies have been sucking Faulkner's dick for decades.

And how daft do you have to be to shit on Melville of all people ? Remember Giono was gay for him.

>>12799216
Maybe he should have thought about what the sun might do when he strikes it.
Ahab got absolutely BTFO by our Lord God in his hubris and arrogance

>>12799738
fuck off anglo you're making all that up and quite frankly it's pathetic.

COPE

>>12799778
Si t'es français tu sais que je pense que tu as un coq de un enfant

>>12799778
I'm French actually, and the popularity of Faulkner in France is well-documented. Likewise Giono wrote "Pour rendre hommage à Melville" (you know who Giono is right?).

But you need to look no later than Baudelaire to see great French writers being influenced by American literature. Add Mallarmé and Valéry for good measure. The influence of those three is massive enough that even if you weren't LARPing and were legitimately a uni prof your opinion would still be dwarfed by them.

>>12799784
>>12799816
shut up fags

>>12799824
Low effort shitposting is sad even when it is tongue-in-cheek.

>>12799824
you got btfo, how does it feel?

>>12799884
you fool! I was arguing with myself to prove a point! all the posts were authored by me!

>>12799892
New to this board, huh?

>>12799723
Interesting, the French are regarded as a joke everywhere but France

>>12799723
>that one parisian literature professor who goes on 4channel instead of fucking his students

What is moby dick even about?

>>12800196
sperm whales and seamen

>>12799451
>aging is a disease that needs to be cured
*locks you in a coffin and buries you 10m underground forever*

>>12800196
Clickbait "Did you know these crazy whale facts?!" for a couple hundred pages.

>>12800196
Wash your harpoon

>>12799723
>I'm a literature professor at an esteemed university in paris
Why would someone do that, go on the Internet and tell lies?

>>12799774
The point is that if the sun can fuck with him then he can fuck with the sun, ever a fair play between each other.

Reminder Ahab isn’t a Christian. Read what Elijah says about him as well as the whole passage that quote is from.

>>12800574
Exactly, he's the only one man enough to call God out on his bullshit.

>>12799584
The Pequod

>>12800196
a tale of a whale and a whale of a take

just read it dude with an open mind and keep no expectations. you'll enjoy it

>>12799285
Based allahu Akbar poster