Travelling
Elaine Jordan, 21 April 1983
No Place on Earth
by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck.
Virago, 110 pp., £6.95, March 1983,9780860683636 Show More
by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck.
Virago, 110 pp., £6.95, March 1983,
Not Not While the Giro and Other Stories
by James Kelman.
Polygon, 207 pp., £3.95, March 1983,9780904919653 Show More
by James Kelman.
Polygon, 207 pp., £3.95, March 1983,
“... The 19th-century novel was the great forum for writing about life – from sanitation to the condition of women, from politics to love. All the novels reviewed here are very much of the 20th century: whatever else they are concerned with, they are always about writing itself, that curious, aberrant occupation which the writer above all needs to explain to himself ... ”