It sits uneasily with Ziolkowski's detailed reading of Claire Goll's Europa novel, for example, elsewhere, and it short-changes writers such as Ana??s Nin, whose Seduction of the Minotaur (1961) is mentioned in passing and by title only, or the quite detailed synopsis of Marguerite Yourcenar's play To Each His Minotaur (1963), whose mystical meditation on two conflicting aspects of womanhood (11