Books: Return of the Furies

THE WAY TO COLONOS (156 pp.)—Kay Clcellls—Grove ($1.95).

Who but a Greek has a better right to raid Greek tragedy? Kay Cicellis (Ten Seconds from Now), a Greek who writes the kind of English most English writers might envy (she learned the language as a child), rifles not so much the stories as the emotional climate of Sophocles. Her stories have modern settings, and the characters have none of the outer dignity and exalted station that were theirs on the ancient Greek stage. But the author proves brilliantly that heart and character can still...