27 AUGUST 1988, page 24

The Growth Of A Brilliant Mind

Paul Theroux THE TONGUE SET FREE by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel Deutsch, £12.95, pp.268 A s Elias Canetti demonstrated in working on his masterpiece Crowds......

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Why couldn't she say she didn't like the red rug with its black pattern of jars and lamps he bought in the tourist shop? (To love him didn't mean she had to love his rug.) And......

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But perfectly formed Ferdinand Mount LETTERS OF MAX BEERB OHM 1892-1956 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis more upset by caricatures of themselves? Why do they beg the artist for the......