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Outsider Unable To Come In

Gabriel Josipovici ENIGMA: THE LIFE OF KNUT HAMSUN by Robert Ferguson Hutchinson, f19.95 K nut Hamsun is indeed one of the enigmas of modern literature. His early novels Hunger......

The Promise

He walked out of the summer's eye Into a place where no one came, Where each step's anonymity Returned its echo in his name, Promising nothing less than all Or nothing that he......

Black Melancholy Mischief

Anita Brookner THE STORIES OF MURIEL SPARK The Bodley Head, £12.95 T hings mostly turn out for the worst in Muriel Spark's short stories, as they do in her novels, but with one......