Point of Principle
Michael Irwin, 2 April 1981
The Radiant Future
by Alexander Zinoviev, translated by Gordon Clough.
Bodley Head, 287 pp., £7.50, March 1981,0 370 30219 2 Show More
by Alexander Zinoviev, translated by Gordon Clough.
Bodley Head, 287 pp., £7.50, March 1981,
Farewell to Europe
by Walter Laqueur.
Weidenfeld, 310 pp., £6.50, March 1981,0 297 77870 6 Show More
by Walter Laqueur.
Weidenfeld, 310 pp., £6.50, March 1981,
“... The Country, which is concerned with old age, death and family bereavement, is adroitly restricted to an account of four visits. The first two, at intervals of a year, are paid by Daniel Francoeur, an American writer long resident in London, to his aging parents in Rhode Island. He finds them unhappy, constrained by repressed hostility and old disappointments ... ”