cover image Words in Commotion: And Other Stories

Words in Commotion: And Other Stories

Tommaso Landolfi. Penguin Books, $7.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-14-009477-0

In this collection of 24 stories, Landolfi, who died in 1979, is introduced to the American reader, who, PW noted, will probably find him a challenge because of his overriding interests""language and its literary possibilities, metaphysics, literary criticsm.'' (January)