The Monster in the Milk Bowl
Richard Poirier, 3 October 1996
Pierre, or The Ambiguities
by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker.
HarperCollins, 449 pp., £15.99, May 1996,0 06 118009 2 Show More
by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker.
HarperCollins, 449 pp., £15.99, May 1996,
“... significant that Melville makes a point of mentioning it. These two earlier illicit lovers betray King Arthur doubly, as both husband and ruler. So do Francesca and Paolo betray Giovanni Malatesta, since he is husband to the one and elder brother to the other. It is their exposure to an actual text of the Lancelot-Guenevere story that induces, according to ... ”