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Confidence Man - Couverture souple

Melville, Herman

 
9781573920384: Confidence Man
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 157392038X ISBN 13 : 9781573920384
Editeur : Prometheus, 1995

Synopsis

Poorly received when first published in 1857, The Confidence Man is now considered Herman Melville's "most nearly perfect work," and one that occupies a central place in the American literary tradition of masquerade and trickery.
Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer, this powerful and engaging novel, through the conversations of the confidence man (who may be looked on as the Devil or God), explores America and American values.
Part satire, part hoax, The Confidence Man is also a dark look at the nothingness lurking beneath our beliefs and assumptionsa look at a universe in which neither God nor the Devil exists, and where Christianity is only a comforting fiction little better than an April Fool's prank.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Poorly received when first published in 1857, The Confidence Man is now considered Herman Melville's "most nearly perfect work," and one that occupies a central place in the American literary tradition of masquerade and trickery.

Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer, this powerful and engaging novel, through the conversations of the confidence man (who may be looked on as the Devil or God), explores America and American values.

Part satire, part hoax, The Confidence Man is also a dark look at the nothingness lurking beneath our beliefs and assumptionsa look at a universe in which neither God nor the Devil exists, and where Christianity is only a comforting fiction little better than an April Fool's prank.

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Éditeur
Prometheus
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
157392038X
ISBN 13 
9781573920384
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
292
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV, GPSR Europäische Union
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