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    612-822-4611

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Pierre

Pierre

Melville, Herman

Paperback

General Parenting

Publisher Price: $23.99

ISBN10: 9371815876
ISBN13: 9789371815871
Publisher: Double 9 Books
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Pierre or the ambiguities investigates the burden of inherited belief, the dissolution of moral certainty, and the personal cost of uncovering hidden truths. Rural landscapes form a delicate surface for deeper unrest, contrasting nature s calm with emotional disarray. The work explores identity, obligation, and self-perception, where social customs and inner contradictions pull against one another. The central figure must reconcile devotion to family with a dawning awareness of conflict between surface appearances and internal convictions. The story deepens its focus on the fracture between what is felt and what must be performed. Idealized love is challenged by shifting moral ground, while relationships reflect the instability of desire and the complexities of self-sacrifice. As personal duty unravels, the narrative resists resolution and instead reveals how clarity gives way to ambiguity under pressure. The emotional and philosophical weight renders a portrait of disillusionment, where belief can no longer guarantee comfort. What emerges is a dense meditation on the collapse of certainty, exposed through psychological intensity and symbolic introspection.

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