Moby Dick

Tr. Spa-Eng. from an anonymous review

 The myth of Leviathan emerged from the dark abyss of the soul abounds in the pages of this wonderful work of the American genius. Metaphysical saga that takes its inspiration from the same Assyrian source (as in the case of H.P.Lovecraft) which cradled the legend of dagones, the fish-men, as manifestations of extraordinary power that contaminated the Jewish vision of the supernatural aspects of evil.
 From a seaside tavern lost in time the episodes are linked together in this archetypal story of men on earth, stationed at sea, on their whaler, entangled in the trap put out by the terrible beast of the raging waters. The white whale becomes present and it is a legend among sailors that she has some supernatural power that no other living specimen has. An obsessive captain, barbed by the ghosts of the past, a young enlisted sailor and a wise and patient harpooner, pass on this great story that depicts the eternal struggle of man to overcome the impulses of the subconscious world (ocean), represented by white whales and the fearful monsters of the high sea that threaten the emotional stability and the very existence of the characters and the species throughout. The story examines the Soul in the souls of the actors who give life to the narrative, and reaches its apotheosis in the description of the battle in which the captain finally faces his own white whale... 

 Illustrious painting of the human heart, this book left an indelible mark on American novelistic tradition and even today it is unsurpassed in its kind and serves as a model to track through literature those monstrous images captive in the abyss of our own darkness.