Confidence-Man - His Masquerade Melville HermanPaperback
Confidence-Man - His Masquerade Melville HermanPaperback On April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions…
Specifikacia Confidence-Man - His Masquerade Melville HermanPaperback
Confidence-Man - His Masquerade Melville HermanPaperback
On April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers. The central character's shifting identities, as fluid as the river itself, reflect broader aspects of human identity even as his impudent hoaxes form a meditation on illusion and trust.This comic allegory addresses themes of sincerity, character, and morality in its challenge to the optimism and materialism of mid-19th-century America. The con artist assumes numerous identities -- a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman -- to win over his not-entirely-innocent dupes.
The novel was completely misunderstood by the author's contemporaries, and its financial failure drove By the time of its publication, readers had pigeonholed Herman Melville as a writer of adventure yarns.
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