At-A-Site Theater presents a Summer Project Celebrating Birthdays of Dead Writers: Herman Melville, August 1
August 1, 2014
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Downtown Asheville NC
Either near Posana's in Pack Square map link
or the "Iron" sculpture at Wall St & Battery Park Ave map link
or Haywood Street near Malaprops map link
or at the corner of North Lexington Ave & Walnut St map link
Passersby are invited to chose from a menu of selections from this 19th Century American novelist whose longest novel, Moby Dick, largely considered a failure during his lifetime and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity, was rediscovered in the 20th Century as a literary masterpiece, ahead of its time, a wild and inventive foray into modernism. The selected passages will then be read to them.
(The Reader may occasionally need to move to an alternative site because of weather or other onsite circumstances)
More information about Herman Melville can be found at Wikipedia or find information about him at this Melville website. If you would like to plunge into the wild ocean that is "Moby Dick", you can find the complete text at this link.
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