Ganglionic Man

The Sphere by Ramón J. Sender. Translated by F. Giovanelli. Hellman, Williams. $3.00

Federico Saila, a Spanish Republican who has escaped through France, is bound for America. He carries a pistol, with which to commit suicide sometime before the voyage ends, perhaps when his credit is exhausted in the bar. The suicide contemplated is partly metaphorical, another symbol in The Sphere—the ethnic suicide that any exile, that Mr. Sender himself, has committed by coming to America.