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Arriving in America has been a "crystallization" of many years of study, writing, and correspondence for Donoghue. He will visit many friends with whom he has been corresponding, such as the poet Richard Eberhart and the historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt...
EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM (275 pp.)-Hannah Arendt-Viking...
Reassessing the trial of Adolf Eichmann in her own original fashion (in a book first serialized in The New Yorker), Political Philosopher Hannah Arendt cites these and other facts and concludes that Eichmann's version of his role in the murder of 5,000,000 Jews was closer to the truth than the Israeli prosecution's. He was not the mastermind, she is convinced. He was simply a cog in the machinery of murder...
...candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that's what. Seven years ago, goaded by the infidelities...
Though cruelly maimed in mind and body, Peter survived and laid a curse upon Hannah before exiling himself to New York: she was never, from that moment, to leave Gaze Castle. The curse tethers Hannah on a chain of neurosis, and she accepts its terms. As her lover watches her from afar with binoculars, she mournfully prowls the grounds of Gaze. Every living soul at Gaze Castle wallows vicariously in her entrapped shame...