Pym. A Novel
| Title | Pym. A Novel |
| Year for Search | 2011 |
| Authors | Johnson, Mat(b. 1970) |
| Date Published | 2011 |
| Publisher | Spiegel & Grau |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia. Something of a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s (1809-49) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1838. The novel begins as a realistic novel, but then the protagonist leads an all-black crew in Pym’s footsteps to the Antarctic, where they find, in addition to Pym still alive, not the blacks with whom Poe’s novel ends but white giants like Sasquatch or Yeti, who enslave them. Escaping they also find a painter who has escaped the U.S. to avoid taxes and is trying to create a eutopia that matches his paintings. |
| Author Note | The author (b. 1970) teaches creative writing at the University of Houston. |
| Full Text | 2011 Johnson, Mat (b. 1970). Pym. A Novel. New York: Spiegel & Grau. Dystopia. Something of a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s (1809-49) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1838. The novel begins as a realistic novel, but then the protagonist leads an all-black crew in Pym’s footsteps to the Antarctic, where they find, in addition to Pym still alive, not the blacks with whom Poe’s novel ends but white giants like Sasquatch or Yeti, who enslave them. Escaping they also find a painter who has escaped the U.S. to avoid taxes and is trying to create a eutopia that matches his paintings. The author teaches creative writing at the University of Houston. |
