Le sphinx noir et la baleine blanche : peinture de l’ineffable et chromatisme du silence dans Moby-Dick

• Published in: Polysèmes
• Main Author: Revol-Marzouk, Lise
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: SAIT 2016
• Subjects: sphinx; mythe; hiéroglyphe; herméneutique; représentation; vacuité; silence; noir; blancheur; ineffable; myth; hieroglyphics; hermeneutics; blankness; black; whiteness; indescribable; litt; lang; Ahab; Baleine; Blanche; Captain Ahab; la Baleine; Noire; Sphinx; White whale
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/polysemes/486

At the heart of Moby-Dick appears the black decapitated head of a whale, hoisted against the Pequod’s side. It is in this tragic passage in chapter 70 that Captain Ahab questions the head about the secrets of the abyss. The scene, entitled The Sphynx, cleverly introduces elements that draw on the du...