This research will construct a critical and sensitive perspective on the concept of failure through the situations and characters detailed by Henry Melville in his novel Moby Dick. To this end, cartography will be used as a method capable of making visible the lines—of tension, generation, and resolution of failure—existing around the whaling ship Pequod. Special emphasis will be placed on the cartographic narrative of the ship's sinking by the great white whale, or Leviathan, as it is considered a multidimensional paradigm of failure, its bodies, and forces.

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