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Melville: a novel
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Contributors:
Eprile, Paul, translator.
White, Edmund, 1940- writer of introduction.
Published:
New York, NY : New York Review Books, [2017].
Physical Desc:
xv, 108 pages ; 21 cm.
Status:
Central
FICTION Giono, J.
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Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick, Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism.
In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel’s challenge—to express man’s fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece.
Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essay, Melville: A Novel—part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile’s expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange full circle.
Paul Eprile was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation's 2018 Translation Prize for his translation of Melville.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Giono, J., Eprile, P., & White, E. (2017). Melville: a novel. New York, NY, New York Review Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Giono, Jean, 1895-1970, Paul, Eprile and Edmund White. 2017. Melville: A Novel. New York, NY, New York Review Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Giono, Jean, 1895-1970, Paul, Eprile and Edmund White, Melville: A Novel. New York, NY, New York Review Books, 2017.

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Giono, Jean, et al. Melville: A Novel. New York, NY, New York Review Books, 2017.

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