白鲸
Moby Dick
Herman Melville · 初版 1851 年
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为什么值得读
- 写于十九世纪中叶，读来却惊人地富有现代感
- 故事旁征博引，信息量庞大如当时的维基百科
- 兼具深刻文学性与不输畅销小说的娱乐性
“举起致命的圣杯！喝吧，鱼叉手们！喝下这杯酒并立下誓言，你们这些操纵致命捕鲸艇船头的勇士——Moby Dick 必死！”Ahab 船长就这样约束着他的船员，以达成他的执念——消灭那头巨大的白鲸。在他专横却疯狂的指挥下，Pequod 号原本的商业使命蜕变为复仇之旅。在 Ahab 眼中，摧毁他身躯的怪物不是单纯的生物，而是“某种未知却仍具理智的存在”的化身。面对天灾、凶兆乃至死亡，Ahab 毫无惧色，驱使着他的战舰冲向“那头巨鲸无法摆脱、无可名状的凶险”。
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《白鲸记》（Moby Dick）。终于抽时间读了它，令我震惊的是，一本写于 1850 年的书读起来竟然感觉如此现代。
Moby Dick Finally got around to reading it, I was amazed at how modern it felt for a book written in 1850.
……老兄，就是把人当物品对待。- 《如果在冬夜，一个旅人》：一个只能讲一次的完美玩笑，外加一个爱情故事。- 《好兆头》：盖曼联手普拉切特，怎么可能不爱？- 《白鲸记》：于是普世的重击轮番降临，大家都该互相揉揉肩胛骨，知足常乐。- 《幸运儿吉姆》：研究生生存指南。跟着‘啦啦啦’唱起来，那儿有个……
…feller, is treatin’ people as things. - If On A Winter’s Night, A Traveler: a perfect joke that you can tell once, plus a love story. - Good Omens: Gaiman and Pratchett team up, what’s not to love? - Moby Dick: And so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content. - Lucky Jim: grad school, a survival guide. Come in on the fa la la las, there’s a…
也许我来得晚了几年，但我强烈推荐读读《白鲸记》。书里与故事情节并行的极其庞大的信息量，甚至让我怀疑梅尔维尔在 19 世纪就能上维基百科了。
Maybe I'm a few years too late but I highly recommend reading Moby Dick. The shear amount of information in the book in parallel to the story makes believe Melville had access to Wikipedia in the 1800s.
……听起来可能会显得我很装，但过去几年里我一直在读那些在高中和大学被强迫去读而且当时讨厌得要死的经典，同时也读了很多‘新’书。现在像《白鲸记》、《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》、甚至《傲慢与偏见》这样的书，读起来居然莫名地和库恩茨、斯蒂芬·金等人的作品一样过瘾。这可能纯粹是因为我喜欢虚构类作品，但现在几乎不怎么读了。或者……
…sounding like a pretentious asshole, over the past few years I've been reading the classics I was forced to in high school and college and hated at the time, along with many "new" ones. Now books like Moby Dick, The Brothers Karamosov, and even Pride and Prejudice are oddly just as entertaining as the works of Koonts, King, etc. This might simply be because I love fiction but hardly ever read it anymore. Or…
如果你想读麦尔维尔但又不想啃那本大部头的《白鲸》，我强烈推荐短篇小说《贝尼托·塞雷诺》：http://www.esp.org/books/melville/piazza/contents/cereno.htm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Cereno
If you're looking to read Melville without tackling the lengthy Moby-Dick, I highly recommend the short story Benito Cereno: http://www.esp.org/books/melville/piazza/contents/cereno.htm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Cereno
如果你有机会读一读《白鲸记》，你不仅能 a) 读到美国文学中最伟大的作品之一，还能 b) 了解到远超你想象的鲸鱼生物学、行为学以及 19 世纪捕鲸业的知识……
If you ever get a chance to read Moby Dick, you will both a) read one of the greatest works of American literature and b) learn more about the biology and behavior of whales and the 19th-century whaling industry than you can possibly imagine.…