Novelist, Screenwriter, and Essayist

Frederic Raphael

3 articles 1996

Frederic Raphael is a British-American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplay for 'Darling' (1965) and his later screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut.' He contributed literary and cultural essays to The Weekly Standard in 1996, covering subjects such as Milan Kundera and T.S. Eliot.

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…