NOTES
The American stage version of PETER WEISS's "The Investiga–
tion" is direded by Ulu Grosbard (one of the translators
of
the
complete text which Atheneum is putting lOut, and from which
our selections are taken). The play opened October 4 at the
Ambassador in New York.. . . TONY TANNER is a fellow of
Kings College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in the
Faculty of English. His next book, he tells us , "will be about
very contemporary trends in American writing." ... Farrar
Straus is bringing out Near the Ocean, ROBERT LOWELL's
new book of poems, later this year.... "Runaway" is an ex–
cerpt from WILLIAM STYRON's new novel, The Confessions of
Nat Turner, which Random House will publish next year. "It is
based," Mr. Styron says, "on the life cf a Negro who .in 1831,
in a remote region of southeastern Virginia, led the only ef–
fective and sustained revolt in the history of American slavery."
... CLAUDE LEVI-STAUSS's latest book, Mythologiques: Le
cru and Ie cuit, elaborates some of the questions considered in
"The Culinary Triangle." Chicago is putting out a translation of
M. Levi-Strauss 's The Savage Mind this winter.... Oxford
brought out ROBERT GARIS' The Dickens Theater last year.
Mr. Garis teaches English at Wellesley.... MARTIN DUBER–
MAN teaches history at Princeton. Houghton Mifflin is putting
out his biography of James Russell Lowell in November....
MORRIS DICKSTEIN .is teaching English at Columbia.... E. M.
CIORAN is a Rumanian philosopher who lives in Paris and writes
in French. He has written five books, the third of which, The
Temptation to Exist, will be published next year by Quadrangle
in Richard Howard's translation.
We're not running reviews in this issue, for lack of space.
There will be an expanded BOOKS section in the Winter
number.
