ISOLATION OR INTERDEPEND–
ENCE? Today's Choices for Tomor–
row's World, edited by Morton A.
Kaplan. Free Press,
$10.00
A team of distinguished social
scientists opens the debate concern–
ing the major choices facing America
with respect to international re–
sources , trade , money , and alliance
policies.
SHELLEY: The Pursuit, by Richard
Holmes. Dutton,
$22.50
" A truer picture of Shelley's life
and character than any we've yet
had ... massive , thorough and high–
ly readable ... he makes Shelley's
life continuously engrossing . -MOR–
RIS DICKSTEIN, New York Times
Book Review "Surely the best biogra–
p hy - of Shelley ever written .. -:
An extraordinary achievement. "
-STEPHEN SPENDER , Times liter–
ary Supplement
THE POWER OF NATIONS: The Poli–
tical Economy of International Rela–
tions, by Klaus Knorr. Basic Books,
$16.95
A leading expert draws on a broad
range of historical and empirical ma–
terials to provide us with an in-depth
description and analysis of the vari–
ous ways in which nations convert
political , economic and administra–
tive resources into international
power and influence .
COB RA, by SeveroSarduy, translated
by Suzanne Jill Levine. Dutton,
$8.95
Winner of the Prix Medicis in
France , Cobra is obligatory reading
for anyone interested in contempor–
ary Latin American fiction . " Severo
Sarduy has everything ... so bril–
liant , so funny , and so bewilderingly
apt in his borrowings , his derivations ,
as well as in his inventions , his find–
ings , he leaves one breathless, like a
shot of rum ." -RICHARD HOWARD
I WOULD HAVE SAVED THEM IF I
COU LD, by Leonard Michaels. Farrar,
Straus and Giroux,
$7.95
Leonard Michaels's first book of
stories , Going Places , was nomi–
nated for the National Book Award ,
translated into European and Oriental
lang uages , and im itated by percep–
tivewriters . 1Would Have Saved Them
If
I Could differs in several respects
but isjust as quick and precise . Aga in
Michaels is obsessed with city life ,
views of the sexual body
I
erotic brain ,
and modern styles of living .
THE TWENTIES, by Edmund Wilson.
Edited with an introduction by Leon
Edel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux ,
$10.00
Edmund Wilson 's journals , as
Leon Edel states in his foreword ,
" provide perhaps the largest authen–
tic document of the time, the obser–
vati o ns of one of the principal actors
in the American twenties ."
KABBALAH AND CRITICISM, by
Harold Bloom. Seabury Press ,
$5.95
By the acclaimed author of Anxiety
of Influence, Kabbalah and Criticism
provides a study of the Kabbalah it–
self , of its great commentators and
the " revisionary ratios " they em–
ployed and of its significance as a
model for contemporary criticism. It
is thus an indispensable book for all
students of literature as well as for all
those who are fascinated by this sing–
ularly rich body of myst ical writings
whose influence is possibly greater
now than at any other time in history.
BEYOND THE BEDROOM WALL, a
novel by Larry Woiwode. Farrar,
Straus and Giroux,
$10.00
By the author of What I'm Going To
Do, I Think, which received the Wil–
liam Faulkner Foundation Award for
" the most notable first novel " of
1969 ,
Beyond The Bedroom Wall ex–
plores the structure of the American
family with honesty , daring and great
artistry .
THE PLEASURE OF THE TEXT, by
Roland Barthes. Translated by
Richard Miller. Hill and Wang ,
$5.95
" Roland Barthes is without visible
rival, the most interesting , fertile and
ambitious critic now writing ."
-FRANK KERMODE , New States–
man . Barthes here explores the ques–
ti on of what it is wedo when weenjoya
text and by way of (In answer sets forth
a poetics of reading .
DARK SOLILOQUY : Selected Poems
of Gertrud Kolmar, with a foreward by
Cynthia Ozick. Seabury Press,
$8.95
Considered by many the greatest
German woman poet of Jewish de–
scent , Gertrud Kolmar, born in Berlin
in 1894, died in the Nazi concentra–
tion camp at Auschwitz sometime in
1943. Her life, in its remoteness from
great events and literary circles , re–
sembled that of Emily Dickinson , and
her poetry , of which very little was
published during her lifetime , re–
mained virtually unknown until years
after her death . Finally published in
1955 ,
a co llection of her poetry won
the prize of the Association of litera–
ry Critics of Berlin .
