Meaning of Timonization | Babel Free

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The transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like Timon of Athens.

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“Among these lesser tragic influences the misanthropic concept of Timonization which seemed to obsess Melville so, and which has its origin in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, is mentioned twice in Pierre …”

“[The second half of Melville's Pierre] describes his growing misanthropy, his "Timonization" …”

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