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Burning The Books

Auto da Fe. By Elias Canetti. Translated by C. V. Wedgwood. (Cape, 21s.) 'Ma. CarvErri,' wrote Walter Allen, when this novel first appeared in English in 1946, 'has created a......

Pleasures Of Disaster

The Man-Eater of Malgudi. By R. K. Narayan. (Heinemann, 16s.) Front Line Stalingrad. By Victor Nekrassov. (Collins, I8s.) THE blurb-writers are at it again. On the front cover......