Pierre would make an interesting book to read as a
proto-noir. Incest, a hellish New York City (lots of
allusions to Dante's Inferno). It was the book that destroyed
Melville's writing career. When published one review ran with
the title, "Herman Melville Crazy."
Ed
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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