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Jumping The National Ship

Adam Zamoyski TRANS-ATLANTYK by Witold Gombrowicz, translated by Carolyn French and Nina Karsov Yale, f15.95, pp. 122 ombrowicz occupies an odd position in 20th-century......

The Hungarian Half Of An English Team

Simon Heller EMERIC PRESSBURGER: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A SCREENWRITER by Kevin Macdonald Faber, £20, pp. 467 S ir Alexander Korda — like Emeric Pressburger, a Hungarian exile......

Post-war Ii

Then I'd rush home at night and look for mail From Europe, via the Red Cross, maybe, To say my parents had been traced, though frail And ill but still alive . . . a dream for me......