CLR James, sur Melville dans Mariners, Renegades and Castaways (The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In), 1950s depuis les Etats-Unis :
The only truly civilized person he can find in New Bedford and Nantucket is a cannibal savage, the harpooner, Queequeg, and the story of their relations is, like all great literature, not only literature but history. (38, édition 2001)Ce qui est localement un intensif, à usage rhétorique de passage, tombe aussi juste comme théorie.
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