Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade\' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid�le is the confidence man\'? The central motif of Melville\'s last and most modern\' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.
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Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade\' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid�le is the confidence man\'? The central motif of Melville\'s last and most modern\' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history
