Melville, quite a bit later, is doing something rather different, tho both
are among other things reactions to the Industrial Revolution city. And Pym
is unique.
I'm not sure what the whole thing is. Do you mean that the Poe story is
somehow like Notes from the Underground? Do you feel like elucidating?
hallucinating? hibernating?
Mark
At 11:04 AM 11/13/2005, you wrote:
>--- Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Robin: Most of Poe has aged badly (prose as well as
> > his insufferable
> > poetry), but there are the odd pieces like "The Man
> > of Crowds" that remain
> > essential, and his one, very early, novel, A. Gordon
> > Pym, is simply
> > astonishing.
> >
> > Mark
>
>K -- and "William Wilson" (the doppleganger theme,
>which naturally appeals to a Scot). But the Man in
>the Crowd was done better by Melville in Bartleby (and
>the whole thing in Poe is Dostoevsky and water).
>
>What else? Usher? Dear god, geeuz a break ...
>
> <g>
>
>A Prejudiced Rodent (who is still not officially back
>here yet).
|