THE CONFIDENCE MAN

Sinopsis de THE CONFIDENCE MAN

Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet.