Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
by Herman Melvilleliterary work· published 1852
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This Kraken Edition of Pierre, or The Ambiguities is a reconstruction of the text that Melville delivered to Harper & Brothers early in January 1852, just as some of the most devastating reviews of Moby-Dick were appearing. The Harper brothers apparently decided that Pierre was even more outrageous than Moby-Dick and tried to avoid publishing it by offering Melville less than half the royalties they had paid for his previous books. Accepting the humiliating contract, Melville took a self-destructive revenge. After Book XVI, he interpolated a new section on "Young America in Literature," in which he arbitrarily announced that his hero, Pierre, had been a juvenile author.
Adaptations (1)
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities was adapted into a 1999 film.
Pola X1999 · film · 134 min · dir. Leos Carax · IMDb ↗A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
