Pierre Or the Ambiguities
de Melville, Herman [Hershel Parker (ed.) Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)]
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London: Harper Collins, 1995. 1st edition. As New. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket xlvi + 449pp., colour b/w plates, The Kraken Edition. PublishersÕ mark on bottom edge o/w very nice copy of an original & beautiful edition
Sinopsis
Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o'the'lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops." So judged the New York Herald when Pierre was first published in 1852, with most contemporary reviewers joining in the general condemnation: 'a dead failure,' 'this crazy rigmarole,' and "a literary mare's nest." Latter-day critics have recognized in the story of Melville's idealistic young hero a corrosive satire of the sentimental-Gothic novel, and a revolutionary foray into modernist literary techniques.
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- Título
- Pierre Or the Ambiguities
- Autor
- Melville, Herman [Hershel Parker (ed.) Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)]
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo As New
- Edición
- 1st edition
- Encuadernación
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- Editorial
- Harper Collins
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1995
- Tamaño
- small octavo
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