Melvillian

“My name is Paul Cortez,” is the Melvillian first sentence of the V.D.F. statement handwritten by Mr. Cortez, a yoga teacher who is awaiting trial as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a dancer in her Upper East Side apartment.

Archive 2007-01-01 Ann Althouse 2007

“My name is Paul Cortez,” is the Melvillian first sentence of the V.D.F. statement handwritten by Mr. Cortez, a yoga teacher who is awaiting trial as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a dancer in her Upper East Side apartment.

The folk literature of those who choose not to exercise their right to remain silent. Ann Althouse 2007

So here I sit, alone in the dark, bleary eyed, hot MacBook in my lap; distraught; exasperated - seemingly alone in Melvillian despair.

Nick Berg, the Job-Seeker 2007

Someone who wants to squeeze the world into a book --- Balzacian, Melvillian : that's what I don't sense in Murakami, which makes his fiction seem more serviceable to everyday needs, to everyday problems, and pleasant reading, but I've attempted one of his novels, and coming out of it I didn't feel the catharsis or felt like I saw God or gained wisdom or grew another intellectual foot.

I read this last week Jenny Davidson 2006

I expect that, knowing which months corresponded to which books, you might find Melvillian grammar or sentences of six-to-eight words, none of them longer than a syllable, a'la you-know-who!

Influences Part 1 2005

In 장화, 홍련 (A Tale of Two Sisters), he created a breathing, pulsating house, an interior decorator's dream hiding the demons and illusions of a young woman, and finally the Melvillian mojo of 달콤한 인생 (A Bittersweet Life), that Dolce

Twitch 2010

India Company and Jan Pieterszoon Coen of the Dutch East India Company, started as Melvillian clerks who, once overseas, broke free of straitjacketing company traditions to build and rule their own international empires.

NYT > Home Page By BRYAN BURROUGH 2010

By this point, McCarthy blended his biblical rapturousness with Melvillian sweep and Hemingway's hard, clean line.

unknown title 2009

It is, in a way, a sort of Melvillian epic, like Moby Dick, with Ian Cormac, an Earth Central Security Agent both hunting down an interstellar dragon (called "Dragon") possessing ancient Jain technology and also his arch-nemesis, Skellor.

Bookspotcentral 2008

I think I am less inclined than you sound to seek epiphany or life-changing revelation in my reading, though, and one of the things I find myself more & more aware of is the appeal of experiencing or indeed evaluating each book I read by the criteria it seems to set for itself, so that the beautifully constructed small-scale noir novel will likely elicit from me a very similar reaction to the (oh, what's a good example) far more intense and Balzacian/Melvillian read like Jonathan Lethem's "The Fortress of Solitude," which I thought was a remarkable book of a different order than the novels I daily find (oh dear, I must revamp my terminology) lovely or delightful or whatever it is.

I read this last week Jenny Davidson 2006