Mat Johnson’s ‘Pym’ re-imagines Poe’s social satire – Washington Post

by Leslie Rohde on March 16, 2011

# “Pym” is outrageously entertaining, a book that brilliantly re-imagines and extends Edgar Allan Poe’s enigmatic and unsettling “Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.”
# Eventually, Pym and his “half-breed” companion, Dirk Peters, flee Tsalal in a small boat and find themselves drawn ever southward, as if by a magnet, into a world of white: White, ashy material falls from the sky; all the birds are white; an icy landscape looms.

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Mat Johnson’s ‘Pym’ re-imagines Poe’s social satire – Washington Post

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