Volume 31, Number 14 · September 27, 1984
Home from Home
By D.J. Enright
The Engineer of Human Souls
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson
Knopf, 571 pp., $17.95
On the title page Josef Skvorecky's novel describes itself as 'An entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death.' All that in slightly under six hundred pages? In the event, we witness what seems a miracle of organization, helped out by the gusto Skvorecky communicates to the reader and the latter's reluctance to lose his way for longer than a paragraph or two.
Review, 2297 words
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