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Anonymous No.24723557 [Report] >>24723758 >>24723985 >>24724116 >>24724240 >>24724932
Book art
What's your favorite art associated with a story?

Picrelated is "Moby Dick" by artist Gérard DuBois.
Anonymous No.24723758 [Report] >>24723760 >>24724240 >>24724793
>>24723557 (OP)
Harry Clarke's illustrations for Faust are nice.
Anonymous No.24723760 [Report] >>24724240
>>24723758
Artzybasheff did some find book illustrations before he went heavily into commercial art.
Anonymous No.24723896 [Report] >>24724240
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 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?
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>>24723985
It's God
Anonymous No.24724013 [Report] >>24724240
Anyone here read Rudin?
Anonymous No.24724030 [Report] >>24724065 >>24724240
>>24723985
the whale's supposed to look fucking enormous
Anonymous No.24724065 [Report] >>24724128 >>24724232 >>24724240
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>>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 No.24724072 [Report]
Also see https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23989869
Anonymous 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 No.24724104 [Report] >>24724108 >>24724131 >>24725022
The work my sister did for my novel, Between Two Valleys.

jerdarious.org/betweentwovalleys
Anonymous No.24724108 [Report] >>24724111 >>24724131
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Anonymous No.24724111 [Report] >>24724131
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Anonymous No.24724116 [Report]
>>24723557 (OP)
I love Aubrey Beardsley's work for Oscar Wilde.
Anonymous No.24724128 [Report] >>24724135
>>24724065
No, the point is that whales are scary and we need to kill them
Anonymous 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 No.24724135 [Report]
>>24724128
>t. Harvard English Lit professor
Anonymous No.24724174 [Report]
>>24723985
This is what modern society does to people
Anonymous 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 No.24724240 [Report]
>>24723557 (OP)
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>>24724065

Retard alert
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Anonymous 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 No.24724263 [Report]
>>24724258
Not to Captain Ahab
Anonymous 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 No.24724762 [Report] >>24725019
Gustave Doré's depictions of The Divine Comedy course but he also did Don Quixote
Anonymous 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 No.24724932 [Report]
>>24723557 (OP)
does book cover art count?
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Anonymous No.24725022 [Report]
>>24724104
Very sweet
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Anonymous No.24725034 [Report]
Boring answer: Dore's engraving of just about anything.
Funny answer: pic related
Anonymous No.24725044 [Report]
>>24724245
That is sublime.
Anonymous No.24725054 [Report] >>24725096
>>24725026
Where's that from?
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Anonymous No.24725096 [Report]
>>24725054
The Master and Margarita