The Restless Supermarket
Ivan Vladislavić
And Other Stories, 304pp, £10
Do copy-editors of today still use the time-honoured signs: the confident slashes, “stets” and arrowheads, the fallen-down S that means transpose? Or is everything now done through.jpg)
the garish bubbles of MS Word track changes? Midway through Ivan Vladislavić’s 2001 novel, The Restless Supermarket, the narrator Aubrey Tearle gives a disquisition on the delete mark of old.
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