Mario Stricklan: Well Moby Dick springs to mind right away. Unfortunately Melville's allusions make little sense. Ishmael and Ahab are both biblical characters but damned if I can find any relevance in it. I find it hard to believe that these were common names in America at the time and since Melville was a middling civil servant I think he was just having a private joke at the reader's expense. Personally I've always thought Moby Dick was a novel about working. I've had quite a few bosses like Ahab in my life.Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novels talk a lot about God etc. etc. but here again its all rather vague. I've read The Idiot and most of his other work and I guess you could say Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is a Christlike figure or at least a saint.Maybe Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath?In poetry The Second Coming by Yeats and Little Gidding by Eliot both powerfully use biblical references. Are they Classics? You decide.Little Gidding is my favorite poem....Show more
Corey Rohleder: eeClare Hoard: Yes, many. It's had its own tradition since the creation of novels.
No comments:
Post a Comment