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Pym (2010)

por Mat Johnson

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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:“THE SHARPEST AND MOST UNUSUAL STORY I READ LAST YEAR . . . [Mat] Johnson’s satirical vision roves as freely as Kurt Vonnegut’s and is colored with the same sort of passionate humanitarianism.”—Maud Newton, New York Times Magazine
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Houston Chronicle • The Seattle Times • Salon • National Post The A.V. Club

 
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.
 
“Outrageously entertaining, [Pym] brilliantly re-imagines and extends Edgar Allan Poe’s enigmatic and unsettling Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. . . . Part social satire, part meditation on race in America, part metafiction and, just as important, a rollicking fantasy adventure . . . reminiscent of Philip Roth in its seemingly effortless blend of the serious, comic and fantastic.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
“Blisteringly funny.”—Laura Miller, Salon

“Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.”—Vanity Fair


“Screamingly funny . . . Reading Pym is like opening a big can of whoop-ass and then marveling—gleefully—at all the mayhem that ensues.”—Houston Chronicle
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An interesting story filled with all sorts of surprises of which some don't make sense, LOL. The reviews say it's pretty funny, but I didn't get the humor at all. I also thought the story was borderline psychotic since much of it doesn't make any sense. Regardless if you like a book that shifts gears a few times, you'll like this. ( )
  Jonathan5 | Feb 20, 2023 |
Overthought and overwrought, "Pym" scans as a fix-up of two halves with dissimilar themes, awkwardly riveted together with a forced attempt at wry social satire. It doesn't work.

The first half is smug and pretentious, with the narrator implicitly winking at the reader: "Look, I'm a black man making fun of blacks; I'm a writer making fun of writers; I'm an academic mocking academia. Aren't I _clever_ ?" The digs at deeply-held conceits would have been more satisfying were the narrator less of a schmuck and the sarcasm thinner.

The second half enters the land of truly bad, SF B-movies. Actually, were Roger Corman to emerge from retirement to produce a blaxploitation/horror film about alien honkies in the Antarctic while hampered by a shoestring budget, this would be the screen treatment.

Hard pass. ( )
  MLShaw | Apr 21, 2022 |
I have been waiting to get to this book since it was published! Now is the time! 'Pym' is the last book in the four book project that covers almost 200 years. I first had to read the inspiration of the other three books- Edgar Allan Poe's 'Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym' and then Jules Verne's 'Antarctic Mystery'. If I hadn't already read H.P. Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness', I would have read that before reading Mat Johnson's book. But I had already read the Lovecraft and loved it years ago. Reading all four was a PROJECT but a fun project. I love that Johnson mentions all of the books featured in this interesting bookish saga within his own book, not only Edgar Allan Poe's original mess, but the other two books as well, making my reading of all four books in this journey completely worth it for me. And Johnson's is the best by far! Really updating these others, giving a freshness to that mysterious Poe ending, not to mention making it a satire. I loved every page here and all the twists and turns. Much like Edgar Allan Poe's original featured Whiteness, whether a subconscious side affect of Poe being a supporter of slavery, Mat Johnson also has interesting things here to say about Whiteness. With a Black main character that sometimes can pass for white, he is trying to use books like Poe's to find why society hasn't moved past the sickness of Whiteness. Anything I say about this book won't do it justice. It's a gem! Pick it up! It's one of those things emanating greatness that I just knew I would love before delving into it and I wasn't wrong. I would fit this on a shelf in between 'Cat's Cradle' by Kurt Vonnegut and 'Parasites Like Us' by Adam Johnson. All three books have the same spirit. ( )
  booklove2 | Apr 17, 2022 |
dnf @ 3% just not my thing :/
  cthuwu | Jul 28, 2021 |
"On the shore all I could discern was a collection of brown people, and this, of course, is a planet on which such are the majority." ( )
  irrelephant | Feb 21, 2021 |
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UPON my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventures in the South Seas and elsewhere, which you can read about on the pages that follow, I found myself in the company of several gentleman in Richmond, Va., who were deeply interested in the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty, to give my narrative to the public.
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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:“THE SHARPEST AND MOST UNUSUAL STORY I READ LAST YEAR . . . [Mat] Johnson’s satirical vision roves as freely as Kurt Vonnegut’s and is colored with the same sort of passionate humanitarianism.”—Maud Newton, New York Times Magazine
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Houston Chronicle • The Seattle Times • Salon • National Post The A.V. Club

 
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.
 
“Outrageously entertaining, [Pym] brilliantly re-imagines and extends Edgar Allan Poe’s enigmatic and unsettling Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. . . . Part social satire, part meditation on race in America, part metafiction and, just as important, a rollicking fantasy adventure . . . reminiscent of Philip Roth in its seemingly effortless blend of the serious, comic and fantastic.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
“Blisteringly funny.”—Laura Miller, Salon

“Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.”—Vanity Fair


“Screamingly funny . . . Reading Pym is like opening a big can of whoop-ass and then marveling—gleefully—at all the mayhem that ensues.”—Houston Chronicle
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