19 APRIL 1975, page 20

Fiction

Soi-disant Peter Ackroyd, Look At The I-larlequins Vladimir Nabokov (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £3.25) Mr Nabokov clearly thinks of himself as a very good, if not a great writer;......

Talking Of Books

Ugly duckling Benny . Green In those bleak but depressingly frequent moments when the gulf between his aspirations and his achievement seems too vast to contemplate, and the......