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Hauteur Of An Auteur

Frederic Raphael WHOM GOD WISHES TO DESTROY by Jon Lewis Athlone Press, £25, pp. 240 T he Romantic prototype of the author is a free-ranging beast who, in return for creative......

Good German, But Not A Good Mann

Piers Paul Read THOMAS MANN: A LIFE by Donald Prater OUP, £20, pp. 554 I n the opening to Chapter Six of Tonio Kroger, Thomas Mann notes that his hero travelled in comfort, for......