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Melville'S Later Novels,Used
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Herman Melville wrote out of a strong creative impulse closely tied to an even more imperative will to survive, to resist the ravages of despair and the urge toward selfannihilation that grew out of an alltooclear vision of the world he saw around him. In his novels Melville wrote of this struggle to survive in a harsh, unyielding world, creating characters such as Ahab and Pierre, who thrash about blindly because of selfignorance, and characters such as Ishmael and the confidence man, who seek instead the calm and the power that lie at the center of man's being.The final work in his critical trilogy on Melville's fiction, William Dillingham's study of the later novels delves into the writer's deepest and most vital concerns to trace the search for selfknowledge that guided the creation of MobyDick, Pierre, Israel Potter, The ConfidenceMan, and Billy Budd, Sailor. Dillingham shows how Melville used the novels as a workshop for his own salvation by investing his characters with the ideas and philosophies that he found compelling or attractive.In Ahab, Melville located the Gnostic vision of lifea vision of alienation and isolationthat he felt powerfully drawn to yet knew would lead to his own destruction, while in Ishmael he created a character who pursues an alchemic quest for the purity to be found at the core of all men, of all nature. The blinding egotism that fueled Ahab's pursuit of his own destruction would in different ways afflict Pierre, Israel Potter, Claggart, and Vere, while Ishmael's determination not to separate himself from life and his search for selfunderstanding would be reflected in the transformations of the confidence man and in the luminescent purity of Billy Budd.Linking Melville's enigmatic narratives with the artist's own epic of selfexploration, Melville's Later Novels presents a rounded, deeply original portrait of a life sustained by art.
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