SOURCE: “P/P … Tekelili: Pym Decoded,” in English Studies in Canada, Vol. 14, No. 1, March, 1988, pp. 82-93.
In the following essay, Smith discusses Pym using Roland Barthes's critical method of “decoding” and deems the work “a metafictional classic.”
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