Reviewed: Margery Kempe, Robert Glück, NYRB In the final chapter of Margery Kempe, Robert Glück reduces his novel to four words: ‘Exult, exasperate, abandon, amaze.’ (Italics his.) This is no spoiler. These words appear repeatedly throughout the novel as anchors, suspending readers in intense moments of uncertainty and wonder. Glück’s novel is a retelling of The Book of Margery Kempe (translated by Barry Windeatt from Middle English in 1986), thought to be the first English-langu...
