5 JANUARY 1991, page 28

Arts

Conservation The Parthenon problem Peter Thompson T his is the story of a single drum of a single column of the Parthenon, to be precise, the first (lowest) drum of the fifth......

Prize-winning French Novels

Anita Brookner T he surprise — and the triumph — of the season in Paris was that the Prix Goncourt was awarded to a first novel written by a man who sells newspapers from a......