موبي-ڊڪ

موبي ڊڪ يا دا وهيل
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

"موبي ڊڪ" (ناول) جي پهرين آمريڪي اشاعت، نومبر، 1851ع شايع ٿيو، جو مک صفحو
مصنف	هرمن ميلوائل
ملڪ	گڏيل آمريڪي رياستون
ٻولي	انگريزي ٻولي
صنف	Adventure fiction epic sea story encyclopedic novel
شايع ڪندڙ	Richard Bentley (United Kingdom) Harper & Brothers (United States)
ڇاپي جي تاريخ	October 18, 1851 (United Kingdom) November 14, 1851 (United States)
صفحا	635 (U.S. edition)
ڊيوي اعشاريائي نمبر	813.3
ايل سي درجه بندي	PZ3.M498 Mo3
متن	موبي ڊڪ يا دا وهيل Moby-Dick; or, The Whale ڏسو وڪي سورس تي

موبي ڊڪ (Moby-Dick) يا دي وهيل (The Whale) آمريڪي ليکڪ هرمن ميلوائل جو 1851ع جو هڪ رزميه ناول آهي. ڪتاب ملاح اسماعيل جي احاب (وھيل مڇيءَ جي شڪار جي ٻيڙي پيڪوڊ جو ڪپتان) جي موبي ڊڪ، هڪ وڏي اڇي سپرم وهيل جيڪا جهاز جي پوئين سفر تي سندس ٽنگ ڪٽي ڇڏي هئي، جي خلاف انتقام وٺڻ لاءِ جنوني ڳولا جي داستان تي مرڪوز آهي.

آمريڪي نشاۃِ ثانيه جي ادب ۾ هڪ عظيم حصو، موبي ڊڪ کي مخلوط جائزي سان شايع ڪيو ويو ته هڪ تجارتي طور تي ناڪام ناول، جيڪو سال1891ع ۾ ليکڪ جي موت جي وقت ڇپائي کان ٻاهر هو. هڪ عظيم آمريڪي ناول جي حيثيت سان ان جي شهرت صرف، ان جي ليکڪ جي پيدائش جي سال 1911ع سان 100 سال پوءِ، 20هين صدي ۾ قائم ٿي. وليم فاڪنر چيو ته هو خواهش ڪري ٿو ته هي ڪتاب هن پاڻ لکيو هجي ۽ ڊي ايڇ لارنس ان کي "دنيا جي عجيب ۽ شاندار ڪتابن مان هڪ" ۽ "سمنڊ جي عظيم ترين ڪتاب" سڏيو. ان جو شروعاتي جملو، "مون کي اسماعيل سڏ"، عالمي ادب جي مشهور ترين جملن مان هڪ آهي.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the 1919 centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literature's most famous.

Melville began writing Moby-Dick in February 1850 and finished 18 months later, a year after he had anticipated. Melville drew on his experience as a common sailor from 1841 to 1844, including on whalers, and on wide reading in whaling literature. The white whale is modeled on a notoriously hard-to-catch albino whale Mocha Dick, and the book's ending is based on the sinking of the whaleship Essex in 1820. The detailed and realistic descriptions of sailing, whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God.

The book's literary influences include Shakespeare, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Thomas Browne and the Bible. In addition to narrative prose, Melville uses styles and literary devices ranging from songs, poetry, and catalogs to Shakespearean stage directions, soliloquies, and asides. In August 1850, with the manuscript perhaps half finished, he met Nathaniel Hawthorne and was deeply impressed by his Mosses from an Old Manse, which he compared to Shakespeare in its cosmic ambitions. This encounter may have inspired him to revise and deepen Moby-Dick, which is dedicated to Hawthorne, "in token of my admiration for his genius".

The book was first published (in three volumes) as The Whale in London in October 1851, and under its definitive title, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, in a single-volume edition in New York in November. The London publisher, Richard Bentley, censored or changed sensitive passages; Melville made revisions as well, including a last-minute change of the title for the New York edition. The whale, however, appears in the text of both editions as "Moby Dick", without the hyphen. Reviewers in Britain were largely favorable, though some objected that the tale seemed to be told by a narrator who perished with the ship, as the British edition lacked the epilogue recounting Ishmael's survival. American reviewers were more hostile.