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THE DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. In this novel about a philologist hospitalized with a brain injury, British Humorist Burgess explores the real meaning lurking behind mere words.
EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette: edited by Robert Phelps. A life of sensualism and intellectual adventure is traced in Colette's random reminiscences; nothing in her own sensitive fiction is as fascinating as the story of her emergence from the shadow of a cynical, exploiting husband.
SELECTED POEMS, by Eugenic Montale. The most profound poet of modern Italy, Montale is at last given English translations (by Robert Lowell, Mario Praz and G. S. Eraser among others) to match his European reputation.
MEMOIRS 1945-53, by Konrad Adenauer. In the first of two autobiographical installments, der Alte reviews the years from World War II to the Administration of Harry Truman, for whom Adenauer had deep respect.
IN MY FATHER'S COURT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Boyhood years in a Polish rabbi's household are evoked in energetic and engaging detail by Yiddish Writer Singer, now recognized as one of the great contemporary novelists.
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