Volume 4, Number 10 · June 17, 1965
Ach!
By Robert Mazzocco
The Giant Dwarfs
by Gisela Elsner
Grove, 309 pp., $5.95
Soul of Wood
by Jakov Lind
Grove, 190 pp., $3.95
Obstacles
by Reinhard Lettau
Pantheon, 183 pp., $3.95
Lothar Leinlein, a precocious boy whose feet ache, is perhaps the all-too-fitting narrator of The Giant Dwarfs, a stylish concoction as inflated as its title. 'It's not enough for my feet to be strikingly ugly in their shape, in their color, but on top of that they're of different sizes.' No one mentions his feet. His mother keeps buying him the wrong shoes. His father snaps: 'Little idler!' They are repaid in full.
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