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,
“... collection itself, isn’t the gathering ‘stained with a secret complicity’? The characters in Maggie Gee’s Light Years keep going to London Zoo as a refuge from human mess or human coldness. But the animals are too tame and nearly human themselves – too far from the wild to be anything other than furry or sliding myths. One of the characters (and ... ”
