"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.--------- Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Deconstructing THE ART OF THE NOVEL and Liberating James's Prefaces
One of the two or three articles I am proudest of, although it has seldom been cited by Jameseans. I so strongly wanted to write it that I took the great risk of breaking away from the Melville biography, knowing that I might not be able to return and complete it. This is a loving tribute to the man I would happily have spent my career working on, had things been different.
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