Volume 1, Number 2 · June 1, 1963
Oxford Gothic
By Eve Auchincloss
The Unicorn
by Iris Murdoch
Viking, $5.00
Symbolic titles are often a bother, but lately there have been some very helpful ones. One knows what one's in for, certainly, when a book is called Ship of Fools, and in case The Centaur should raise doubts, that book supplies a glossary. Iris Murdoch's seventh novel, The Unicorn, follows so close on the hooves of John Updike's third that progressively educated readers may pardonably be muddled. In fact, Miss Murdoch's beast has played a greater role in Christian symbolology than in classical mythology; here she gives it a fresh run.
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