Melville
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jean Giono ; translated from the French by Paul Eprile ; introduction by Edmund White
Contributors: Eprile, Paul, translator; White, Edmund, 1940- writer of introduction
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781681371375
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Pour saluer Melville
Description: "In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel's challenge--to express man's fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece. Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essai, Melville: A Novel--part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Translation from the French of: Pour saluer Melville.