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Mardi, and a Voyage Thither is
American author
Herman Melville's third book, published in 1849. It is his first pure fiction work (while featuring fictional narrators, his previous novels were heavily autobiographical). It details (much like
Typee and
Omoo) the travelings of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the
South Pacific. Unlike the first two, however, Mardi is highly philosophical and is said to be the first work to show Melville's true potential. The tale begins as a simple narrative, but quickly focuses upon discourse between the main characters and their interactions with different symbolic countries they encounter. While not as cohesive or lengthy as
Moby-Dick, it shares many of the same themes and writing style.
As a preface to Mardi, Melville wrote somewhat ironically that his first two books were nonfiction but disbelieved; by the same pattern he hoped the fiction book would be accepted as fact.
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