The translation by Anne Jouard of The Relativity of Reality1 by René Laforgue, is an adequate presentation of the text. The painstaking effort to present an absolutely literal English rendering sometimes makes for somewhat tortuous, stilted sentence structure and not only detracts from the reader's enjoyment of the book, but often makes it difficult to grasp the meaning at a glance. This is unfortunate, since Laforgue's French is particularly free-flowing, alive, and expressive of exact shades of meaning. The translation is distinctly pedestrian, and stands in the same relationship to the original as does an excellent, unretouched photograph to the actual face of a man, with all its intrinsic capacity for subtle changes.

As The Relativity of Reality is a book which deserves to be widely read, this version will at least make the contents available to the English speaking public.