William Ahearn wrote:
Let's face it, not a lot measures up to Moby Dick. Out of
curiosity, any chance you read Melville's The Confidence Man
or Pierre Or The Ambiguities?
************ None of those, I'm sorry to say. I read Bartleby
and Billy Budd. Billy Budd hit me as a mediocre play on the
noble savage, and my reaction to Bartleby was, "So what? You
can't save all the crazies." No reader empathy there at all
on my part. Mario's later post is correct in identifying
postmodern themes in Bartleby.
miker
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