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Why is this book so influential? I see it referenced everywhere in tv shows, movies, video games etc.

>> No.7896886

>>7896881

Why don't you read it and find out for yourself.

>> No.7896889

>>7896881
BECAUSE IT IS BY THE ONLY MYTH MAKING IMAGINATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY HERMAN "THE HERM"
MELVILLE

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7896894

>>7896889
Feel the Herm!

>> No.7896898

>>7896881
You should know by the end of the first page if you actually were reading it.

>> No.7896900

>>7896894
Melville would definitely vote for God Emperor

>> No.7896910

>>7896881
Doesn't your second question answer your first?

>> No.7896913

>>7896910
Statement* lol

>> No.7896916

>>/pol/

>> No.7896917

>>7896900
Melville would vote for a true god-emperor
He would vote for an ahab, not for some narcisisstic vacuous child like trump

>> No.7896921

>>7896917
>impying some degenerate gimp would ever get close to the nomination

>> No.7896944

>>7896881
it's an archetypeal story. It's iconic, the definitive hunt story.

>> No.7896947

>>7896921
He wouldn't, but that's not the point.
Melville would see right through Trump's pompous bullshit, he wrote extensively on what makes a man a true man. There isn't a single candidate he would consider valuable tbqphwymf.

>> No.7896966

>>7896881
Read it and you'll see why.

>> No.7898488

>>7896881
Fairly experimental. Also, required reading in many schools so any mention of it will be understood by many people.

>> No.7898530

It's the ultimate revenge story that also has Biblical themes.

>> No.7898552

No one had ever written about an animal so big before. It really opened the doors for big-animal novels.

>> No.7899129

It's Shakespearean in its prose and profundity

t's Biblical in its themes, scope, and allegory.

It "answers" the taunt that America had yet to produce any great literature.

It's structure is wildly experimental and anticipates modernism by 50 years.

It's remarkably progressive in its approach to religion, race, class, capitalism, morality, and sexuality.

It's an archetypal revenge story against the largest predator on Earth.

It's so jam packed with allusions, knowledge, direct references that it spills out into 14 pages before the book even begins (which makes it that much incredible that it was written by a high school drop-out mariner who actually lived this life)

Meanwhile, the book is both high-brow and low-brow capital-H Hilarious and full of dick jokes (duh).

>> No.7899132

>Melville write this when he was barely 30

Pretty impressive desu