Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the BiloquistCharles Brockden Brown1798

Two powerful classics that examine the psychological, social and political concerns of the early American republic.
"Wieland", Brown's novel of authority misrepresented and authority imagined, is a terrifying account of the fallibility of the human mind and, by extension, of democracy itself. Set in rural Pennsylvania in the years before the American Revolution, the book relates how a small community is disturbed by the intrusion of the mysterious Car in, whose extraordinary verbal gifts cast doubt and dissension among them.

In the fragmentary sequel "Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist", Brown explores Carwin's bizarre previous history : as a manipulated disciple of the charismatic utopian schemer Ludloe.

Titre original : Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1798)