Una storia da raccontare. Scienza e Natura in Moby Dick di Melville

Through a close examination of several pivotal passages from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, this paper reconstructs the figures of modern theatre, captured in their obsessive quest for intensity, movement in opposition to stasis, and the escape from emptiness—a form of blindness that inevitably leads to destruction. The interplay of illusions, distortions of vision and perception, new cosmogonies, and religious fervour constitutes the essence of a performance aimed at severing ties with the ancient world, set in a vortex that reshapes, with profound force, the relationship between science and nature