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Mark X - Who Killed Huck Finn's Father? (Paperback)
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Mark X - Who Killed Huck Finn's Father? (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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In the summer of 1876, Mark Twain started to write Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel surrounding the murder of
Huck's father, Pap Finn. The case is unresolved in the novel as it
exists today, but Twain had already planted the clue to the
identity of the killer. It is not the various objects
ostentatiously left around Pap's naked body; they are not the
foreground of the scene, but actually the background, against which
a peculiar absence emerges distinctively-Pap's boots, with a
"cross" in one of the heels, are gone with his murderer. The key to
the mystery of Twain's writings, as this book contends from a
broader perspective, is also such an absence. Twain's persistent
reticence about the death of his father, especially the autopsy
performed on his naked body, is a crucial clue to understanding his
works. It reveals not only the reason why he aborted his vision of
Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel, but also why, despite
numerous undertakings, he failed to become a master of detective
fiction.
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