Bottoms Again
Jerry Fodor, 19 June 1997
The Woman and the Ape
by Peter Høeg, translated by Barbara Haveland.
Harvill, 229 pp., £15.99, January 1997,1 86046 254 5 Show More
by Peter Høeg, translated by Barbara Haveland.
Harvill, 229 pp., £15.99, January 1997,
“... Archimedes thought that he could move the world if only he could get outside of it, and the same idea inspires writers in the transcendental genre of fiction. Find some place sufficiently far out and put your fulcrum there. The leverage you achieve will lend authority to your voice. Both these books hope that higher primates will supply the required pivot ... ”
