Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor
With an essay by Daniel G. Hoffmann.
''Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool''
In The Confidence-Man, Melville''s unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamb...
With an essay by Daniel G. Hoffmann.
''Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool''
In The Confidence-Man, Melville''s unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamb...
