KUNDERA GOES FRENCH
June 10, 1996 · Frederic Raphael, Blog
In its French edition, published by Gallimard, Slowness -- La lenteur -- comes scarfed with a red paper bandanna on which the word KUNDERA appears, a huge one-word promise. Gallimard's habit of singularizing its A-ream of authors is not uncommon in France. However, to be elected to the band of the…
KUNDERA GOES FRENCH
June 10, 1996 · Frederic Raphael, Blog
In its French edition, published by Gallimard, Slowness -- La lenteur -- comes scarfed with a red paper bandanna on which the word KUNDERA appears, a huge one-word promise. Gallimard's habit of singularizing its A-ream of authors is not uncommon in France. However, to be elected to the band of the…
THE TALE OF T.S. ELIOT & PRINCESS DI'S LAWYER
March 25, 1996 · Frederic Raphael, Blog
Sill in his thirties, Anthony Julius has an uneven fame in today's England: He is both the high-flying lawyer representing the Princess of Wales, in her impending divorce from Prince Charles, and the unadvertised author of a book, T.S. Eliot, AntiSemitism and Literary Form, which threatened enough…