I don't know what I think. This is a strange book, a very strange book, not weird in the way Gogol is weird, or Lewis Carroll is weird, but unusual, because it doesn't look like a novel, but not in the sense that it encompasses many genres and is many things at once like War and Peace or Moby Dick, it's simply different. This book I must read again later and should write about only when I'm more familiar with Melville as well as Thoreau, Poe, Emerson...
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It's such a strange novel, and difficult. Full of puzzles, mostly unsolved by me. Parker's quotation is wonderful and accurate.
ReplyDeleteDi,
ReplyDeleteIt's one of my favorite Melville works.
Tom,
ReplyDeleteIt is, indeed. I didn't dare to write about it.
I like the word "exhilaration".
Fred,
I know. Do you want to write more about it?
Di,
DeleteI'll probably do a brief blog post on it sometime soon. It's a complex work, and I'm struggling with it.