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Review title: Judged on what it is, not what it isn't.
Product review: Steinbeck never finished this work, nor did anyone take up the reins after him to do so, and it's of dubious value to talk about its unevenness or incompleteness. It's only a partly finished work with a look at =why= it's partly finished included in the correspondence in the back.The book goes from not-very-interesting, almost literal translation of Mallory's work to, at some point, pure Steinbeck. He's inside the characters' heads, he's inside Mallory's head, and at its finest this is a mature a treatment of the legend as has been done. (In particular, the damning impact of Lancelot's single kiss with the Queen--the point at which the book unfortuntaely stops.)Then there is the correspondence, which itself is telling. See if you can't figure out =why= Steinbeck didn't finish this book in the last eight years of his life. I have my theories, but it is the speculation that is interesting.
