\'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr.
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Latter-day critics have recognized in the story of Melville\'s idealistic young hero a corrosive satire of the sentimental-Gothic novel, and a revolutionary foray into modernist literary techniques.
So judged the New York Herald when Pierre was first published in 1852, with most contemporary reviewers joining in the general condemnation: \'a dead failure, \' \'this crazy rigmarole, \' and a literary mare\'s nest.
Melville\'s style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o\'the\'lantern to guide the wanderer\'s footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops. \'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr
