Pym

Hardcover, 322 pages

English language

Published Aug. 26, 2011 by Spiegel & Grau.

ISBN:
978-0-8129-8158-2
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4 stars (8 reviews)

Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Determined to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes, Jaynes convenes an all-black crew of six to follow Pym’s trail to the South Pole, armed with little but the firsthand account from which Poe derived his seafaring tale, a bag of bones, and a stash of Little Debbie snack cakes. Thus begins an epic journey by an unlikely band of adventurers under the permafrost of Antarctica, beneath the surface of American history, and behind one of literature’s great mysteries.

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Pym has some interesting things to say about race and this could have been a great platform to do so. There are some structural issues that are really the fault of Poe, in mirroring his Pym novel, but I think the bigger deal with this novel is the comic elements. That tone is occasionally interjected, but is too jarring when it comes.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Humor
  • Contemporary