Millhauser finds himself among very good company in terms of experimental forms of narrative. The style of "The Princess, the Dwarf and the Dungeon" is similar to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Invisible Cities presents the stories Marco Polo tells Kubla Khan after he returns from his journeys. The novel is divided into independent sections that are related to each other by their categorization. Likewise, "Catalogue of the Exhibition" is extremely similar in tone, theme, and format to Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, in which a fictional poem is analyzed by a fictional critic who claims to be a displaced member of royalty. Questions arise as to the narrator's authority and the creation of a narrative from examples of an isolated piece of art created by the main character of the narrative. Thus, the story of the artist is told by the interpretation of the art he makes. Both...