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Chasing Abstract Bliss

Benjamin Yarde-Buller HAPPY MOSCOW by Andrey Platonov Harvill, £9.99, pp. 164, ISBN 186046646X A ndrey Platonov is increasingly being recognised, in Russia and elsewhere, as one......

Russian Dolls, Each With A Secret

John de Falbe THE SECRET HISTORY OF MODERNISM: A NOVEL by C. K. Stead Harvill, £14.99, pp. 230. ISBN 1860469310 T he main character of C. K. Stead's sophisticated and......

Outing The Fiihrer

Frederic Raphael THE HIDDEN HITLER by Lothar Macthan, translated by John Brownjohn Basic Books, f10.99, pp. 288, ISBN 0465043089 W hen Nero was in one of his paranoid frenzies,......