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DEVIATION By Luce D'Eramo Translated by Anne Milano Appel 347 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27. More than seven decades after the Red Army threw open the gates of Auschwitz, [...]

TRAPLINES By Eden Robinson. 215 pp. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $23. At the age of 28, the Canadian writer Eden Robinson has already won a reputation as [...]

THE HOUSE OF OTHERS By Silvio d'Arzo. Marlboro/Northwestern University, cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95. Born in the Italian backwater of Reggio Emilia in 1920, Ezio Comparoni died of cancer at the [...]

THE HOUSE OF OTHERS By Silvio d'Arzo. Marlboro/Northwestern University, cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95. Born in the Italian backwater of Reggio Emilia in 1920, Ezio Comparoni died of cancer at the [...]

WHEN THE WORLD WAS STEADY By Claire Messud. 270 pp. New York: Granta Books. FIRST novelists sometimes feel obliged to furnish an upbeat ending. The post-modern tendency, of course, is [...]

HEADHUNTER By Timothy Findley. 440 pp. New York: Crown Publishers. $23. WITH eight books of fiction and a number of plays to his credit, including 'Famous Last Words' and 'The [...]

THE TEACHINGS OF DON B. Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme. Edited by Kim Herzinger. Introduction by Thomas Pynchon. 352 pp. New York: Turtle Bay Books. [...]

FANTASTIC TALES By I. U. Tarchetti. Edited and translated by Lawrence Venuti. Illustrated by Jim Pearson. 191 pp. San Francisco: Mercury House. $25. CALL an author 'minor' and you tar [...]

WATERMARK By Joseph Brodsky. 135 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. JOSEPH BRODSKY'S latest book, 'Watermark,' is a homage to Venice, a city to which the poet, essayist and [...]

LEAD: PRACTICALITIES: Marguerite Duras Speaks to Jerome Beaujour. By Marguerite Duras. (Grove Weidenfeld, $15.95.) Marguerite Duras is probably best known in this country for her autobiographical novel ''The Lover'' and [...]

VIOLENCE, NUDITY, ADULT CONTENT By Vince Passaro. 300 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $24. FOR a book critic, writing a novel must be pure hell. It's not merely that [...]

LEAD: RUNNING WILD. By J. G. Ballard. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $12.95.) Over the last 25 years, the British writer J. G. Ballard has touched a great many stylistic bases, [...]

LEAD: AMERICA. By Jean Baudrillard. Translated by Chris Turner. (Verso, $24.95.) Tourists, beware. Although the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard has drawn inspiration from his travels around the United States, and [...]

THE CABALIST. By Amanda Prantera. (Atheneum, $12.95.) Amanda Prantera's second novel examines the final weeks in the life of Joseph Kestler, a magician and scholar in the occult arts of [...]

QUEEN OF HEARTS. By Dan McCall. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, $15.95.) Those old standbys Love and Death figure in almost any novel of worth, but here Dan McCall has made [...]

THE STORY OF SIRIO. By Ferdinando Camon. Translated by Cassandra Bertea. (Marlboro Press, Paper, $8.) ''The Story of Sirio'' traces the sentimental education of its title character, the heir to [...]

MODERN ROMANCES. By Judy Lopatin. (Fiction Collective, Cloth, $15.95. Paper, $7.95.) Judy Lopatin's first collection of stories trains a quirky, agile intelligence on the New York-Paris axis, locating romance in [...]

WET PAINT By Gwynn Popovac. 373 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $19.95. GWYNN POPOVAC'S first novel, a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman set in the early 1960's, [...]