Herman Melville

>>9208627
Nice picture. What about this terribly lonely master, exactly. The poetry's actually pretty good. Typee Redburn Moby Dick are the novels to read. Pierre is schlock but weirdly fun. Mardi I find unreadable. White Jacket and Omoo.. I always forget about them when making lists like this, but theyre good too. The four major shorts (I include the Encantadas) are fantastic, major monuments of American Lit along with the doctor. Anything else? Confidence Man, perhaps?

>>9209422
Fucking Bartleby
I don't know why Kafka gets such praise when Melville already finished his lifes work in a short story

I didn't understand Bartleby. Am I a brainlet?

>>9209434
Yea p. much

>>9209431
Amerika, however, had so much potential. The idea of writing a comic novel based solely on the rumors about America flying about Prague at that time, and pretending that the sum of these rumors was an actual place, was genius. Once the Oklahoma Nature Theater kicked into gear I found myself wanting more, but this is where it ends, unfinished. Otherwise, I fear youre right.

>>9208627
He's one of the few undisputed greats.