Carry on writing
Stephen Bann, 15 March 1984
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Picador, 282 pp., £7.95, January 1984,0 330 28325 1 Show More
by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Picador, 282 pp., £7.95, January 1984,
It’s me, Eddie
by Edward Limonov, translated by S.L. Campbell.
Picador, 264 pp., £7.95, March 1984,0 330 28329 4 Show More
by Edward Limonov, translated by S.L. Campbell.
Picador, 264 pp., £7.95, March 1984,
“... Putting on again joyously the hateful harness’. That is how Robert Pinget’s diffident and slightly dotty narrator, Monsieur Songe, describes the process of taking up his pen yet again, and adding one more to an already considerable cavalcade of novels.* Then he crosses out the word ‘hateful’. And then he crosses out the word ‘harness ... ”