Moby Dick, or White Whale. Melville G.

German Melville (1819-1891) - an American writer and sailor, in whose work and fate the experience of the traveler and the mythopoetic worldview of the artist surprisingly organically melted. The awareness of the talent of Melville did not immediately come, and only a quarter of a century after the death of the writer, the outlines of the huge contribution that he made to the treasury of world literature became visible. The central work of Melville - the grandiose “mobile Dick” - became one of the peaks of American literature, finally depriving America of the status of the “cultural desert.”