NP- Melville's PIERRE

[David Morris]

his was posted on the "Ishmail" Melville list.  I've not read *Pierre* and was
wondering how someone on this list feels about that book.

David Morris

>>Ishmaelites,
>>I have just finished touring through PIERRE...what a journey.  Melville's
foray into the "domestic" novel could be placed along side any of Pynchon's
novels of "chaos" in the modern world.  If Fanny Fern when writing RUTH HALL
decides readers do not need entrances or exits, Melville has determined that
narration should be like the waves on Lake Michigan...striking us from all
angles simultaneously. I found most of it to have a "tongue and cheek" quality
imbedded in it, as well as anger and frustration. Many thanks to Hershal
Parker's second installment of Melville's bio. It shed more light on what was
going on with Melville personally and how it affected his writing of this novel.

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