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7257412 No.7257412 [Reply] [Original]

Now THIS is how you write a fucking novel!

Out of my way pomo fucking shits!

>> No.7257424

>implying it isn't the precursor to pomo

>> No.7257433

Mobydick is pretty shitty imhotbh ( in my honest opinion to be honest) , fam

smh also

>> No.7257435

>>7257424
This, isn't the fact that ahab failed kind of hinting at the doubting of meta-narratives that postmodernism is known for?

>> No.7257448

>>7257435
Spoilers?

>> No.7257452

>>7257435
indeed, it's a preminent work of the romanticism movement, the predecessor to modernism and thus postmodernism.

>> No.7257507

>>7257448
>opens thread about how a novel is written
>obviously going to be full of people talking about all sorts of parts of the book
>still complains of spoilers

>> No.7257729

Part of is is written as a play and several huge chapters are basically epistolary encyclopedia entries on whales.

It's a fucking amazing book but the idea that it's a good rejoinder to po-mo or experimental lit doesn't really make any sense. It's ridiculously experimental, both for its time and in an absolute sense.

>> No.7257759

>>7257412
Is that supposed to be Moby Dick on the cover? It's not white and it's absurdly small if it is. I can't remember any other whales smashing any boats in the book, but that could just be my memory.

>> No.7257773

>>7257759
No, Moby-Dick is the scientist. That's Moby-Dick's whale.

Well, with how heavily emphasized the 'whiteness' is, I'd guess it's just a generic whale and ship. It'd be a pretty egregious mistake otherwise.

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7257791

>>7257773
>No, Moby-Dick is the scientist. That's Moby-Dick's whale.

>> No.7257827

>>7257448
>Spoilers
>1851
... If u don't know by now.

>> No.7257833

>>7257412
But it's even more bloated than most Pomo

>> No.7257872

Spewing out 927 pages of descriptive writing of fucking whales is how you write write a novel? Literature is fucking dead.

>> No.7257988

>>7257412
I am tempted to finally read Moby Dick, but first I wanted to ask: is it really an allegoric, symbolic story with lots of introspection and meanings? if it's just an adventure novel I don't want to read it anymore

>> No.7257995

>>7257988
The beauty of Moby Dick is that it can be understood multiple ways depending on what you carry emotionally with you going into it. It's like a literary Rorschach test.

>>7257433
Or you're just an idiot.

>> No.7257997

>>7257988
the fun stops as soon as you get off shore

>> No.7258000

>>7257988
It has introspection on every level from spiritual to existential, from multiple perspectives. Read it.

>> No.7258022

>>7257448
>reading for plot