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This is the kind of book that couldвЂ™ve gone on forever, concluding only when the authorвЂ™s spleen and/or exuberance gave out, and Melville admitted as much with the last sentenceSomething further may follow of this Masquerade.but this readerвЂ™s glad it didnвЂ™t, as his enthusiasm for the book faded toward the end. Which isnвЂ™t to knock the book necessarily, since The Confidence Man is almost more of a conceptual piece than a novel; meaning that the idea is as important, or even more, than the actual execution; and the idea is a winner. The entire novel takes place aboard a boat going down the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans, and all the action takes place on a single day, April 1. The main character (or characters) is a confidence man who shape-shifts into at least six personages during the journey, from a crippled black man to a gregarious white cosmopolitan. But then this is all inference by the reader, as Melville treats all his manifestations as separate and distinct beings, playing the confidence man himself, never admitting the deception. All of these avatars of the con man attempt to fleece their fellow passengers in one way or another, but as theyвЂ™re doing it they are also, through Melville, calling attention to hot button issues of the day, from Native American widows and orphans needing assistance to a proliferation of so many different bank notes issued by so many different banks that people couldnвЂ™t tell what was real money and what wasnвЂ™t to the popularity of Emerson and Transcendentalism (which Melville apparently loathed). So Melville uses the format as a vehicle for social commentary, but I think his larger concerns were with personal identity and faith.Reading The Confidence Man can induce a very curious state of mind, a state in which one doesnвЂ™t know how to take anything, as if presented with a substantive riddle with no solution; so reading the book itself becomes an issue of faith, of moving forward through irreducible uncertainty. Much of this is due to the fact that the confidence man is one of, if not the most, sympathetic characters on the boat. As he moves from personage to personage imploring them to have faith, to have trust and confidence in them, the few who refuse to fall for his ploys are the meanest most ingrown characters of the bunch; as if by refusing faith, even in a flimflammer, is to reduce and circumscribe oneвЂ™s life to such a degree as to become a crabbed asocial nutjob.In this way Melville emphasizes the importance of faith, but from a cynical angle, as if itвЂ™s the only option when living in a world where nothing is as it seems, where nothing can be trusted in the traditional sense; in effect saying that when living in a world where nothing can be trusted the only healthy option is to trust everything. This can be construed, in terms of faith as a concept, as a kind of nihilistic Christianity, or even more accurately, Buddhism, as there seems to be know over-arching вЂњgodвЂќ on MelvilleвЂ™s boat, just a big cloud of uncertainty and deception, of Maya. And reading the book itself gives the feeling of navigating through Maya, of navigating without any certain knowledge other than faith.
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