Aunts and Uncles
Michael Hofmann, 19 November 1992
A Feast in the Garden
by George Konrad, translated by Imre Goldstein.
Faber, 394 pp., £14.99, October 1992,0 571 16623 7 Show More
by George Konrad, translated by Imre Goldstein.
Faber, 394 pp., £14.99, October 1992,
Brothers
by Carmelo Samona, translated by Linda Lappin.
Carcanet, 131 pp., £13.95, August 1992,0 85635 990 4 Show More
by Carmelo Samona, translated by Linda Lappin.
Carcanet, 131 pp., £13.95, August 1992,
“... to fall in love with, as the boy himself must have done too. You might say of Brothers by the late Carmelo Samona, professor of Spanish at the University of Rome, that it came out of Kafka’s waistcoat, but for the fact that it probably has as many provenances as Homer: Borges, Pirandello, Beckett ... It is perfectly engrossing, bred by plausibility out ... ”
