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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Moby Dick
This is a quotation from Cultural Amnesia by Clive James with which I very much agree. Herman Melville has written some great fiction (among them Billy Budd and some of his short stories), but Moby Dick is a boring attempt to overachieve that not only doesn't make it, which is bad enough, but which is excruciatingly boring, and that's a sin.
"...there was a period of my early life which I did actually occupy with getting through Moby-Dick. Perhaps spoiled in childhood by the narrative flow of Captains Courageous, I found Melville's ocean clung like tar. I wish I could believe that it was a masterpiece I wasn't ready fo. Whoever said 'Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds' was as wrong as he was funny, but there is surely a case for saying the story of Captain Ahab's contest with the great white whale is one of those books you can't get started with even after you have finished reading them. It's not so much that I find his language contortedly and wilfully archaic: more that I find it makes a meal of itself, as if foretelling a modern critical age in which it is fated to be more taught than enjoyed."
"...there was a period of my early life which I did actually occupy with getting through Moby-Dick. Perhaps spoiled in childhood by the narrative flow of Captains Courageous, I found Melville's ocean clung like tar. I wish I could believe that it was a masterpiece I wasn't ready fo. Whoever said 'Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds' was as wrong as he was funny, but there is surely a case for saying the story of Captain Ahab's contest with the great white whale is one of those books you can't get started with even after you have finished reading them. It's not so much that I find his language contortedly and wilfully archaic: more that I find it makes a meal of itself, as if foretelling a modern critical age in which it is fated to be more taught than enjoyed."
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