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The Way Through Doors.(Brief article)(Book review)
In an inversion of the Scheherazade legend, the hero of this dizzyingly circuitous novel must tell stories all night to a beautiful amnesiac, to keep her awake and alive. He begins by explaining himself: he writes pamphlets (sample title: "An Inquiry into the Ultimate Utility of the Silly, as Prefigured in the Grave and Inhospitable") and works as a municipal inspector, in an office reachable only by ladder. His stories dissolve, unfinished, into other stories; characters--including a "guess ...
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