Thread 24723557

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Anonymous 9/14/2025, 10:35:27 PM No.24723557 [Report] >>24723758 >>24723985 >>24724116 >>24724240 >>24724932

Book art

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What's your favorite art associated with a story?

Picrelated is "Moby Dick" by artist Gérard DuBois.

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 12:20:56 AM No.24723758 [Report] >>24723760 >>24724240 >>24724793

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>>24723557 (OP)
Harry Clarke's illustrations for Faust are nice.

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 12:21:58 AM No.24723760 [Report] >>24724240

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>>24723758
Artzybasheff did some find book illustrations before he went heavily into commercial art.

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 1:19:06 AM No.24723896 [Report] >>24724240

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Cows by Matthew Stokoe is a weird book I don't know if I entirely like, but this artwork from deviantart is really good.

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 2:00:12 AM No.24723985 [Report] >>24723990 >>24724030 >>24724087 >>24724174 >>24724240

>>24723557 (OP)
What the fuck kind of perspective is this? Is the whale the size of a skyscraper? Is it floating mid air?

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 2:02:22 AM No.24723990 [Report] >>24724065 >>24724240

>>24723985
It's God

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 2:12:14 AM No.24724013 [Report] >>24724240

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Anyone here read Rudin?

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 2:21:16 AM No.24724030 [Report] >>24724065 >>24724240

>>24723985
the whale's supposed to look fucking enormous

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 2:46:20 AM No.24724065 [Report] >>24724128 >>24724232 >>24724240

>>24723990
>>24724030
Isn't the point of Moby Dick that the whale is just a whale and Ahab is a crazy retard for obsessing over a dumb animal?

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 2:50:59 AM No.24724072 [Report]

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Also see https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23989869

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 3:02:20 AM No.24724087 [Report]

>>24723985
It’s a direct reference to this line in the book
>strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside, except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall
It’s about the magnified importance of the whale in Ahab’s mind and his ceaseless awareness of it, as if it were a constant feature of his environment.

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 3:10:51 AM No.24724104 [Report] >>24724108 >>24724131 >>24725022

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The work my sister did for my novel, Between Two Valleys.

jerdarious.org/betweentwovalleys

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 3:12:06 AM No.24724108 [Report] >>24724111 >>24724131

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Anonymous 9/15/2025, 3:13:10 AM No.24724111 [Report] >>24724131

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>>24724108

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 3:16:00 AM No.24724116 [Report]

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>>24723557 (OP)
I love Aubrey Beardsley's work for Oscar Wilde.

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 3:21:31 AM No.24724128 [Report] >>24724135

>>24724065
No, the point is that whales are scary and we need to kill them

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 3:22:33 AM No.24724131 [Report]

>>24724104
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>>24724111
These are nice! Although I'd hesitate to post anything a sibling did on 4chan of all places

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 3:27:08 AM No.24724135 [Report]

>>24724128
>t. Harvard English Lit professor

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 3:52:40 AM No.24724174 [Report]

>>24723985
This is what modern society does to people

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 4:20:33 AM No.24724232 [Report] >>24724258

>>24724065
No, not really. Have you read it? When people say that The Whale is a whale, it's half joking, but also serious in that "whale" here comes with all the meanings and associations of whale that the book elaborates on. I'd actually say that "is -just- a whale" is the opposite of what is meant

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 4:22:55 AM No.24724240 [Report]

>>24723557 (OP)
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Retard alert

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 4:26:32 AM No.24724245 [Report] >>24725044

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Anonymous 9/15/2025, 4:31:35 AM No.24724258 [Report] >>24724263 >>24724279

>>24724232
>It's not just a whale, it comes with meanings and associations.
So it's just a whale?

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 4:34:10 AM No.24724263 [Report]

>>24724258
Not to Captain Ahab

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 4:41:06 AM No.24724279 [Report]

>>24724258
What does "it's just an x" mean to you? I'm ESL, but to me, it sounds reductive, and I thought that was the point of the phrase. Reductionism is the opposite of what Melville does for the whale. I probably can't express myself any clearer than this, sorry.

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 10:32:31 AM No.24724762 [Report] >>24725019

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Gustave Doré's depictions of The Divine Comedy course but he also did Don Quixote

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 11:13:07 AM No.24724793 [Report]

>>24723758
I listened to an audio drama of Faust a few months ago. It was amateur as fuck (made part 2 feel like even more of a fever dream than it already is), but Mephistopheles was played by an old Chinese guy that I found really fitting. Exactly how I imagine that depiction of him would sound

Anonymous 9/15/2025, 1:24:40 PM No.24724932 [Report]

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