VOYAGE TO THE OTHER EXTREME: FIVE STORIES. Mallet, Marilú. Montreal, Vehicule Press, c1985. 105pp. paper, $7.95, ISBN 0-919890-62-8. CIP Grade 12 and up Reviewed by Philip K. Harber Volume 14 Number 4 1986 July Translated from the Spanish, and previously published in French as Les compagnons de l'horloge-pointeuse (Québec-Amérique, 1981), these five short stories evoke both the nightmare climate of the 1973 coup in Chile that overthrew and killed Allende, and the contrasting impersonality and alienation of life as an immigrant to Canada afterwards. The stories of prison and torture are the most striking, and gain from being understated. The fictitious narrators of Mallet's stories are stunned by events and seek only to survive, even if it means being an exile in an Anglo-Saxon country, so different from the placid stagnation of "The Loyal Order of the Time-clock" or the bureaucratic corruption of "Blind Alley." Philip K. Harber, Toronto Board of Education, Toronto, Ont.