Literary talk : Moby Dick, on the tracks of the white whale...

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Médiathèque Municipale Jehanne Arnaud, 107 route du Plan de la Tour, Carré Léon Gaumont, 83120 Sainte-Maxime
Thanks to Dominique Marcais, translator and doctor in American literature, discover all the mysteries of the mythical animal and the eternal beauty of MOBY DICK.

Herman Melville's MOBY DICK, more than a masterpiece, a myth where animal and man merge.

Since its creation in 1851, Captain Ahab's white sperm whale has never left the Western imagination. A peaceful giant capable of transforming into a vigilante demon, it has long embodied the ambivalence of man, bent on destroying an evil that he believes to be foreign and which is in fact hidden within himself. Now he also embodies the image of nature that turns with violence against the one who hurts it...

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Literary talk : Moby Dick, on the tracks of the white whale...
Médiathèque Municipale Jehanne Arnaud, 107 route du Plan de la Tour, Carré Léon Gaumont, 83120 Sainte-Maxime
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