I never read Herman Melville "Moby Dick" -perhaps I'll do it after this trip !- but if somebody had asked me, where I thought he wrote it, I'd have answered, without hesitation : in a house just in front of the sea, in a place like this one :
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| Permaquid Peninsula -Maine- USA-
Not at all ! He wrote it in PITTFIELD- Massachusetts- in a XVIIIth century farm, he named "Arrowhead", surrounded by corn fields and woods, where he lived between 1850 and 1863.
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The "New-England Ulysse guide" (and Wikipedia in English!) explains us, that his writing cabinet was on the second floor. Througn the window, he had a beautiful view on Mount Greylock, which "snow-covered profile reminded him of a great white Sperm-Whale breaking the ocean'surface".
That's how a great writer takes part of his inspiration !
c'est une année Melville, je le retrouve dans les émissions de radio et je suis ravie de le retrouver ici
RépondreSupprimerGive yourself a lot of time if you're going to read it (I did recently.) I will try to e-mail you a link to a post I did about the church were Melville went to in New Bedford Massachusetts.
RépondreSupprimerBut what a beautiful house to sit and write. :-)
RépondreSupprimerI too have never read Moby Dick although like all children in the US, I learned the first line at a young age.
Hugs from Holland ~
Heidi