Leviathan, March 1st, 2004
Chapter 46 of Redburn, "A Mysterious Night in London," has long remained a sticking point in a number of critical evaluations of the novel. The story of young Redburn's traumatic overnight experience with his new friend Harry Bolton at Aladdin's Palace, a fashionable London gambling "hell," is, in the opinion of some commentators, a melodramatic excrescence in an otherwise compelling account of a teenage boy's initiation into the evils and injustices of the world. Hershel Parker, for example, argues that the scene is "lurid" and "unconvincing," an exercise in literary padding. Robert K. Mart...
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