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And We Have Come Into Our Hermitage

Evelyn Jon THE STATE HERMITAGE: MASTERPIECES FROM THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTIONS edited by David Hemming and Mark Sutcliffe Booth-Clibbom Editions, two volumes, f150, pp. 1,571 I n......

Lipograms That Laugh And Hide

William Scammell A VOID by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair Harvill, £15.99, f7.99, pp. 284 T erminal anarchy breaks out in the Introduction. A country like France......