THE SOCIALIST IDEA : A Reap–
praisal , edited by Leszek Kolakowski
and Stuart Hampshire. Basic Books ,
$1 0.00
A distinguished group of philos–
ophers , sociologists , economists
and pol itical scientists analyze the
traditional socialist values and ex–
plore the possibility of inherent con–
tradictions in the original messianic
soc ialist idea.
READING MYSELF AND OTHERS ,
by Philip Roth . Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, $8.95
Roth 's book exp lores the relation–
ship between the written and the un–
written world , between what a writer
intends and what manifests itself in
his work ; between the work and the
uses to which it is put by readers ,
c ritics , and by the media .
JAMES AND JOHN STUART MILL
Father and Son In the 19th Century,
b y Bruce Mazlish . Basic Books .
$16.95
In the struggle between this extra–
ordinary , influential father and son ,
we can see the genesis of the revolu –
tion of liberal ideas-about sex, love
and women , wealth and work , au–
tho rityand rebell ion-which us hered
in the modern age .
THE FREEDOM OF THE POET, by
John Berryman . Farrar, Straus and
Girou x, $8.95
John Berryman's own se lections
from his published and unpublished
prose , this collection includes not
only his famous writings on the El iza–
bethans but also essays on American
writers like Dreiser, Crane , James ,
and Fitzgerald , and on poets like
Whitman , Hardy , and Pound , and
several stories .
ROOSEVELT AND CHURCH ILL :
Their Secret Wartime Correspon–
dence , edited by Francis L. Loewen–
heim , Harold D. Langley , and Man–
fred Jonas . Saturday Review Press ,
$17.50
" A very significant contribution to
the high strategy of World War II, and
highly readable , too , as both writers
were masters of English prose."
-SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON .
THE LI FE AND TIMES OF AN IN–
VOLUNTARY GENIUS : The Auto–
biography of Andrei Codrescu . Ven–
tu re, $7 .95
The true story of a poet's exile from
a small and traditional commun ist
country to the wide-opened and li–
censed Americaduring the turmoil of
the 1960's. Andrei Codrescu has cap-
tured in his autobiography al l of the
charm and emotional intensity, as
well as the extravagance and eccen–
tricity , that have made his poetry so
affecting .
THE FOUNDATION PIT , by Andrey
Platonov. Translated by Mirra Gins–
burg . Dutton , $7.50
A satirical novel by one of the most
important Soviet authors of the 20th
century whose works have been
banned in Russ ia. "There is not an
educated reader in the U. S.S.R. who
does not know Pl atonov , and not a
sing le professional writer alive who
would not pay tribute to his mas–
tery ."-YEVG ENY YEVTUSHENKO
THE CONSCIOUSNESS INDUSTRY :
On Literature , Politics , and the
Media, by Hans Magnus Enzensber–
ger. Seabury Press, $6.95
A collection of major essays by
one of the foremost contemporary
German poets and essayists which
reflects his and his generation ' s
changing attitude toward the impor–
tance of literature, politics , and the
media.
POLITICS AND CRIME , by Hans
Magnus Enzensberger . Seabury
Press , $8 .95
The companion volume to The
Consciousness Industry presents
more of the trenchant essays of one
of Germany's most important con–
temporary writers .
STILL LIFE , by Sanford Friedman .
Saturday Review Press , $8.95
Two short novels , Still Life and
Lifeblood -by the author of Totem–
pole-which explore in complemen–
tary modes two conseq uences of re–
pression . " Read singly t hese novels
dazzle and hurt. Read by each oth er's
light they revea l and console ."
-JAMES MERR ILL
REVOLUTION OF THE WORD : A
New Gathering of American Avant
Garde Poetry 1914-1945. Edited by
Jerome Rothenberg . Seabury Press ,
$12 .95
A detailed , often startling anthol–
ogy which inc ludes visual poetry ,
prose poems , performance pieces ,
and documents , as well as the more
conventional poetry of t his extraor–
dinarily rich period in Ame rican let–
ters .
