No good books have shitty titles.
>>25636189Moby-Dick; or, The WhalePierre; or, The AmbiguitiesConfidence-Man: His MasqueradeA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>>25636338>Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
Petersburg is as bland and generic as it gets for a title. And yet