Volume 38, Number 7 · April 11, 1991
Did It Flow?
By John Bayley
Hourglass
by Danilo Kiš, translated by Ralph Manheim
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 274 pp., $22.95
Mendelssohn Is On The Roof
by Jirí Weil, translated by Marie Winn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, 228 pp., $23.95
The Miracle Game
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson
Knopf, 436 pp., $22.95
The novelist in central Europe today has a more than usually difficult task, surrounded as he is not only by a social scene in which national and ideological elements are changing places, but by a confusion of possible styles and modes of writing, many of them newly imported from the West. And behind all this looms the most disturbing of all questions for such a writer: Who, in this new age of change, dissolution, and uncertainty, is going to read him?
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