Volume 14, Number 4 · February 26, 1970
The Very Thing
By John Wain
Command, and I Will Obey You
by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 190 pp., $5.50
Bad Debts
by Geoffrey Wolff
Simon & Schuster, 224 pp., $5.95
Lunar Landscapes
by John Hawkes
New Directions, 288 pp., $5.95
The Cost of Living Like This
by James Kennaway
Atheneum, 208 pp., $5.95
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
by Jorge Amado, translated by Harriet de Onis
Knopf, 576 pp., $6.95
There are times when one is as weary of the clutter of fiction as of the clutter of life: all that coming and going, those conversations and journeys and meals, all the concrete manifestations of our intent which fulfill it and at the same time spill over its edges. At such times we desert fiction and turn, according to our taste, to poetry or to philosophy, to whatever has form without too much overlay of detail. In response to such a mood as this, Wallace Stevens wrote in 'Credences of Summer':
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