Word: goerlitz
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...English language today but by long odds the most learned and profound man of our time." Briffault's third novel, Fandango, is shorter and a little less pretentious than the others. In every other respect it is like them. Nominally the story of Beautiful Carlotta von Goerlitz and of what she sees in Spain on the eve of Civil War, in Vienna after Anschluss, in Paris as an exile, it is actually a series of very moderately intelligent travel and political notes, held together by stock characters, decorated by eroticisms, seasoned with high-school cynicism, anger, iconoclastic irony...
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