Fagon wants his story to alert the king to the baleful influence the confessor will exercise and the harm it will do the nation. Louis has just chosen a new confessor, and his old physician, Fagon, narrates to him the sufferings this confessor once inflicted on a simple boy. As readers, we are a bit like Louis the Fourteenth in C.
Often, the safety surrounding strangeness is so safe that one οf the tasks οf the fiction is to push us off into a distress οf interpretation. Melville’s narrator, the lawyer who employs Bartleby, is an unambiguous, comfort-loving Wall Street type. Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas, whose terrible battle to force justice into being rent his family and his world, is a decent, law-abiding salesman οf horses. The action οf nineteenth-century novels begins upon the common ground: a security οf types, places, dealings, and values.
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