What time is it?
Michael Wood, 16 February 1989
Dreams of Roses and Fire
by Eyvind Johnson, translated by Erik Friis.
Dedalus, 384 pp., £11.95, December 1988,0 946626 40 5 Show More
by Eyvind Johnson, translated by Erik Friis.
Dedalus, 384 pp., £11.95, December 1988,
Women in a River Landscape
by Heinrich Böll, translated by David McLintock.
Secker, 208 pp., £10.95, February 1989,0 436 05460 4 Show More
by Heinrich Böll, translated by David McLintock.
Secker, 208 pp., £10.95, February 1989,
The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman
by Aldo Busi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal.
Faber, 430 pp., £12.95, January 1989,0 571 14657 0 Show More
by Aldo Busi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal.
Faber, 430 pp., £12.95, January 1989,
“... them a world without sin is a world without a chance of redemption. This is precisely the world of Aldo Busi’s The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman (published in Italy in 1985), which recounts three weeks or so (with copious flashbacks) in the rambling, conspiratorial existence of one Angelo Basarovi, a student in Verona, author of a ... ”
