s the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, the exact day of the novel's setting. The Confidence-Man portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Many critics have placed The Confidence-Man alongside Melville's Moby-Dick and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" as a precursor to 20th-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism

Media	Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven	11 mei 2017
ISBN13	9781546614821
Uitgevers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pagina's	180
Afmetingen	203 × 254 × 10 mm · 367 g
Taal en grammatica	Engels

Alles tonen

Meer door Herman Melville

Anderen hebben ook gekocht

Meer uit deze serie

Bekijk alles van Herman Melville ( bijv. Paperback Book , Hardcover Book , Book , CD en Sewn Spine Book )