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Quieter Than Clichy

i.m. Alfred Perles 1897-1990 It was not because you met Rilke, Not because of the Henry Miller years, But the way you tapped your temperate glass Every time on the table, saying......

The Choice Of The Japanese Themselves

Francis King CHILDHOOD YEARS: A MEMOIR by Junichiro Tanizaki Collins, £15, pp.250 A sk a westerner to name the greatest Japanese novelist of the last 50 years and it is probable......