Underparts
Nicholas Spice, 6 November 1986
The Voyeur
by Alberto Moravia, translated by Tim Parks.
Secker, 186 pp., £9.95, October 1986,0 436 28721 8 Show More
by Alberto Moravia, translated by Tim Parks.
Secker, 186 pp., £9.95, October 1986,
Dvorak in Love
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson.
Chatto, 322 pp., £10.95, September 1986,0 7011 2994 8 Show More
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson.
Chatto, 322 pp., £10.95, September 1986,
Moments of Reprieve
by Primo Levi, translated by Ruth Feldman.
Joseph, 172 pp., £9.95, October 1986,0 7181 2726 9 Show More
by Primo Levi, translated by Ruth Feldman.
Joseph, 172 pp., £9.95, October 1986,
“... the two books, and each of them is told in the first person. Moravia’s Edoardo is a professor of French in Rome, Updike’s Roger a professor of theology at an East Coast university in a city that has marked resemblances to Boston (it has, for example, a Christian Science cathedral). But these are parallels between books which are in manner as different as ... ”