30 NOVEMBER 1985, page 35

Notes From An Original Mind

Paul Theroux THE HUMAN PROVINCE by Elias Canetti Deutsch, £9.95 T he oddest aspect of Elias Canetti's winning the Nobel Prize in 1980 was not the fact that he had written only......

As Expected, Only More So

Gabriele Annan SELECTED LETTERS OF CH ARLES DICKENS Edited and arranged by David Paroissien Macmillan, £25 is bilious system is so utterly over- thrown, that a small ball of......