Poles Apart
John Sutherland, 5 May 1983
Give us this day
by Janusz Glowacki, translated by Konrad Brodzinski.
Deutsch, 121 pp., £6.95, March 1983,0 233 97518 7 Show More
by Janusz Glowacki, translated by Konrad Brodzinski.
Deutsch, 121 pp., £6.95, March 1983,
In Search of Love and Beauty
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Murray, 227 pp., £8.50, April 1983,0 7195 4062 3 Show More
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Murray, 227 pp., £8.50, April 1983,
Some prefer nettles
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Secker, 155 pp., £7.95, March 1983,0 436 51603 9 Show More
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Secker, 155 pp., £7.95, March 1983,
The Makioka Sisters
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Secker, 530 pp., £9.95, March 1983,0 330 28046 5 Show More
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Secker, 530 pp., £9.95, March 1983,
‘The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi’ and ‘Arrowroot’
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony Chambers.
Secker, 199 pp., £7.95, March 1983,0 436 51602 0 Show More
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony Chambers.
Secker, 199 pp., £7.95, March 1983,
“... named) is ‘walrus face’. One can see the slang equivalences which the translator (Konrad Brodzinski) is aiming at. But by the wildest stretch of the imagination, one can’t hear an assembly-line worker at Cowley or Dagenham fondly referring to his leader as, say, Moss the bullmoose. And it doesn’t help that Glowacki’s workers have ... ”
