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ODYSSEY OF THE SELF-CENTERED SELF (184 pp.)-Roberf Elliot Fitch-Harcourt, Brace & World...
...AGONY AND THE ECSTASY (664 pp.)-Irving Stone-Doubleday...
...TALENT SCOUT, by Remain Gary (209 pp.; Harper; $3.75), is a potboiler with a difference. The difference is the devil. Not that he ever appears, but he is at the heart of a readable but contrived political allegory which talented Novelist Gary (The Roots of Heaven, Lady L) could have written only in a state of boredom. Gary's Faust is Jose, a South American adventurer who figures that if he is bad enough, the devil will see that he makes good. Relatively ordinary vices (pimping, incest) do not seem to work, but when he turns to politics...
Naroyan (250 pp.; Viking; $3.95), is a very funny book that generates the driest kind of laughter about man, that figure of serious fun. The story's uncertain hero is a printer in a small Indian town who bats out jobs on an ancient press but finds his real pleasure in running a kind of literary salon whose major figures are an unpublished poet and a jobless journalist. Slam-bang into his nerveless world crashes a huge, careless taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains...
...ANNALS OF LOGAN, by Robert Graham (216 pp.; Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95), is the latest wrinkle in Organization Man books, and one from which the genre may never recover. As to plot, characters and tone, it is an ordinary anti-business novel: somebody sleeps with somebody's secretary, somebody is fired ruthlessly, somebody else goes mad. The only innovation Author Graham has introduced is that he writes the whole thing in verse, of sorts. Everyone at Cross Automatic Controls is meant to have his own meter, but the main differences between the characters lie in typography: the president speaks...