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The monstrous personal chronicles of the thirties

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From: Novel
Date: 19980701
Author:Scholes, Robert

And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young

and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

D. H. Lawrence, "Whales Weep Not"

My epigraph from D.H. Lawrence is partly intended as a nod to my old friend and colleague, Mark Spilka, a major advocate of Lawrence in a time that has grown less sympathetic to him. But it is also meant to introduce my theme, which is the rise, in the period between the two World Wars, of certain monstrous narratives-forms of the diary, the journal, and the travelogue (or thinly fictionalized ...

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