AN OTHER I: THE FICTIONS OF CLARK BLAISE Robert Lecker Toronto, ECW Press, 1988. 243pp, paper, ISBN 1-55022-083-7 (cloth) $28.00, 1-55022-082-9 (paper) $16.00. CIP Post-secondary/Adult Reviewed by Joanne Peters. Volume 17 Number 4 1989 July Clark Blaise is, in a sense, neither a Canadian nor an American writer. His mother was a Canadian and his father was an American who were constantly moving around the U.S. and Canada, rarely settling anywhere for very long. In An Other I, Robert Lecker explores the dual role Blaise inhabits in the fictions he creates: Blaise is both the subject and author of "self-reflexive fictions." Lecker is obviously fascinated by his subject, and his exploration of the corpus of Blaise's works is certainly a thorough one, although the very thoroughness with which Lecker examines the texts verges on the tedious. Although Blaise's work is very typically post-structuralist fiction, Locker's work in some ways harkens back to a very old critical tradition, that of biographical criticism. This blend of the post-modern and the traditional makes for a rather unusual work of criticism. Those who are not familiar with Clark Blaise's writings will find that lack of knowledge a decided disadvantage as they work through this book. For post-secondary students of modem literature with a special interest in the works of Clark Blaise, the book has definite value, being the most comprehensive study of his writing to date and containing a bibliography of other writing about Blaise. Joanne Peters, Sisler High School, Winnipeg, Man.