The Great Exhibition
John Sutherland, 6 September 1984
Enterprise Red Star
by Alexander Bogdanov, translated by Charles Rongle, edited by Loren Graham and Richard Stites.
Indiana, 266 pp., $22.50, June 1984,0 253 17350 7 Show More
by Alexander Bogdanov, translated by Charles Rongle, edited by Loren Graham and Richard Stites.
Indiana, 266 pp., $22.50, June 1984,
Conversations in Another Room
by Gabriel Josipovici.
Methuen, 121 pp., £7.95, August 1984,0 413 55930 0 Show More
by Gabriel Josipovici.
Methuen, 121 pp., £7.95, August 1984,
An Affair on the Appian Way
by Michael Levey.
Hamish Hamilton, 219 pp., £8.95, August 1984,0 241 11315 6 Show More
by Michael Levey.
Hamish Hamilton, 219 pp., £8.95, August 1984,
“... A prefatory note testifies that Empire of the Sun draws on its author’s observations as a young boy swept up by the Japanese capture of Shanghai, and his subsequent internment in Lunghua airfield camp, outside the city. James Ballard’s narrative, pitched ambiguously between autobiography and fiction, records the lost childhood of a lad variously nicknamed Jim and Jamie ... ”