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Books

Cold comfort hacienda Raymond Carr THE FAMILY OF PASCUAL DUARTE by Camilo Jose Cela I ntellectuals enjoy in Spain what must seem, to British eyes, an exaggerated prestige. The......

A Picker-up Of Considered Trifles

Lucy Hughes-Hallett SOHO SQUARE edited by Ian Hamilton Bloomsbury, £12.95, pp.287 I an Hamilton has written a book about literary magazines and edited one with distinction. Now,......

Exuberance In A Prison Cell

John Jolliffe LETTERS OF LOVE edited by Julia Voznesenskaya Quartet, f10.95, pp.120 asn't everything been said about the Gulag?' asks Julia Voznesenskaya almost apologetically......