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HEART OF EUROPE - edited by Klaus Mann & Hermann Kesten - Fischer...
This book is an encyclopedic anthology of European writing between Europe's two greatest wars. Into its 935 pages, the editors (Thomas Mann's son, Klaus, and German Novelist Hermann Kesten) have packed scraps of novels, shreds of biographies, short stories, essays, poems by 140 authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel...
...TOAST To TOMORROW-Manning Coles-Crime Club ($2). The deputy chief of the German Police in 1933 recovers from amnesia to remember he is actually Hambledon of British Intelligence in World War I. Thereafter "Klaus Lehmann" spies to end all spying, raises hell with German war plans. Timely, well done and not very corny...
Howard I. Grossman 1L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Philip Kazon 2L, Rutland, Vt; Klaus Braun 2L, Wiesbaden, Germany; Sidney Werlin 2L, Malden; James H. Wilson Jr. 1L, Tifton, Ga.; Lawrence F. Ebb 1L, Dorchester; and Julius L. Shack 2L, Mattapan...
Even without his famed associates, Klaus Mann could do a good job of editing a magazine by simply depending on his family connections. Among his contributors and contributors-to-be are Father Mann, Uncle Heinrich Mann (a novelist too), Sister Erika Mann, Erika's British poet husband Wystan Hugh Auden, Poet Auden's British novelist friend, Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood...