CENTURIA: ONE HUNDRED OUROBORIC NOVELS BY GIORGIO MANGANELLI, TRANSLATED BY HENRY MARTIN KINGSTON NEW YORK: MCPHERSON & COMPANY. 214 PAGES. $24.
Born in Milan in 1922., Giorgio Manganelli did not emerge into the literary world until the early '60s, when he joined Gruppo '63, the avant-garde literary movement whose best-known members included Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco. In the ensuing thirty years, until his death in 1990, Manganelli published more than two dozen volumes of fiction and nonfiction, and though his work has been translated into ten languages, only two of his novels have appeared in English, the first more than a decade ago. The second is Centuria. Originally …
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