Volume 42, Number 3 · February 16, 1995
Real Magicians
By Hilary Mantel
East, West: Stories
by Salman Rushdie
Pantheon, 214 pp., $21.00
The Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories
by R.K. Narayan
Viking, 312 pp., $23.00
Some years ago, in an essay called 'A Writer's Nightmare,' R.K. Narayan imagined himself a citizen of a strange country called Xanadu, where the government printer had made a grave error; five tons of forms meant for the controller of stores had been turned out with the heading 'controller of stories.' Five tons of paper is no mean amount, and an official must be invented to make use of it. Perhaps, indeed, this is a matter in which government should have interfered before?
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