The Confidence-Man A Darkly Comic Mississippi Riverboat Satire of Trust, Fraud, and American Belief
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
19.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
168
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1 cm
Gewicht
254 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-3331-7
Set aboard the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle on April Fools' Day, The Confidence-Man is Herman Melville's darkly comic anatomy of trust, fraud, and American sociability. Through a sequence of shifting disguises and philosophical encounters, the novel tests the fragile bonds between charity, credulity, commerce, and self-interest. Its episodic structure, theatrical dialogue, and satirical density place it beside the great mid-nineteenth-century experiments in moral fiction, while anticipating modernist uncertainty and postmodern games of identity. Melville wrote the book after the commercial failure of Moby-Dick and Pierre, at a moment when his reputation had declined and his fiction had grown increasingly skeptical of easy moral resolution. A former sailor, travel writer, and acute observer of democratic manners, he brought to the novel a lifelong fascination with masks, imposture, metaphysical doubt, and the uneasy promises of the American marketplace. Readers who admire intellectually demanding fiction will find The Confidence-Man a bracing and unsettling achievement. It rewards patience with wit, irony, and philosophical depth, offering not a simple plot but a provocative inquiry into belief itself. For anyone interested in Melville beyond Moby-Dick, this strange final novel is indispensable.
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