Reading Melmoth the Wanderer | Alexandria
Read Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin. Haunting our moral blind spots, this Gothic masterpiece exposes humanity's darkest impulse: our need to witness others' suffering. Through Melmoth's curse of immortal observation, Maturin reveals how we all become complicit voyeurs of pain - yet this uncomfortable truth may be key to developing true empathy.