Reconstructions
Michael Irwin, 19 February 1981
The Daughter
by Judith Chernaik.
London Magazine Editions, 216 pp., £5.50, January 1981,9780060107574 Show More
by Judith Chernaik.
London Magazine Editions, 216 pp., £5.50, January 1981,
We always treat women too well
by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright.
Calder, 174 pp., £8.95, January 1981,0 7145 3687 3 Show More
by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright.
Calder, 174 pp., £8.95, January 1981,
“... roused my own antipathies as early as the second page of his novel: Kepler, arriving at a Bohemian castle, is greeted by a hump-backed dwarf who pipes, ‘God save you, gentles,’ and to make matters worse has second sight. When Tycho Brahe, Kepler’s host, appears, sporting the metal bridge in his damaged nose, he bemoans the loss of a pet elk that has ... ”