Theory with a Wife
Michael Wood, 3 October 1985
Mr Palomar
by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver.
Secker, 118 pp., £8.50, September 1985,0 436 08275 6 Show More
by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver.
Secker, 118 pp., £8.50, September 1985,
Parrot’s Perch
by Michel Rio, translated by Leigh Hafrey.
Dent, 88 pp., £7.95, September 1985,0 460 04669 1 Show More
by Michel Rio, translated by Leigh Hafrey.
Dent, 88 pp., £7.95, September 1985,
“... At the beginning of Robert Musil’s Man without Qualities a well-dressed couple arrives at the scene of an accident on a busy street in Vienna. The lady is uncomfortable, ‘had a disagreeable sensation in the pit of her stomach, which she felt entitled to take for compassion’. The man, after a pause, says: ‘These heavy lorries they use here have too long a braking-distance ... ”
