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...trade in mercy on the bloody landscape of the Europe of the 19403, is a man named Joel Brand. He told his story to a German journalist, Alex Weissberg, who put it down baldly and brutally. Fine writing would be an offense against the appalling facts of this bitter memoir...
What is perhaps most remarkable about Stars is that it is a fictionalized memoir from an author who is himself blind. Between the ages of 17 and 19, Novelist Bjarnhof lost his sight, subsequently toured as a concert cellist and became one of Denmark's leading men of letters. Active as an essayist, newspaper editor and radio interviewer, Karl Bjarnhof has published seven novels. Stars, which appeared in Denmark in 1956 and has since been translated into six languages, is the sixth. It is a measure of Author Bjarnhof's rigorously won success that he makes his hero...
When Johnny died, his father wrote Death as a private memoir, but was persuaded by friends that it would inspire other parents in similar straits. Gunther has given his $25,000 in royalties from the book to children's cancer research, and Harper's has also contributed its profit. Almost ten years since the book's publication, he still gets 200 letters a year about Johnny from readers all over the world, many enclosing money, pressed flowers or a poem. Gunther and his second wife Jane, whom he married in 1948 (her first husband: Newscaster John...
...want to think about those sordid things," writes Nathan Leopold. He may have written this memoir partly to help ease his burden of guilt about "those things," though the book reads less like a cathartic confession than the garrulous, sometimes querulous recollections of a man who had all the time in the world and seems to think that his audience has as much...
Just as Joyce was obsessed by Dublin and needed to get it out of his system, so Stanislaus was obsessed by James Joyce, and this book was his exorcism. With the true Joycean alchemy, he took truths that were ugly, sordid and violent and composed a memoir that is grave and serene. Yet he did not wholly escape his brother. He died in 1955, on June 16-Bloomsday, i.e., the day in the life of Leopold Bloom chronicled in Ulysses. It was a day Stanislaus himself annually celebrated with a party...