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Goodnight, Vienna…

Goodnight, Vienna… STODDARD MARTIN reads a redolent dramatized account of an Austrian family’s 20th century tribulations Edmund de Waal had a succès d’estime a few years back with his family memoir The Hare with the Amber Eyes. His Ephrussi forbears, … Continue reading

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Twentieth century sociology – made (mostly) in America

Twentieth century sociology – made (mostly) in America STODDARD MARTIN traces the American origins of European social research Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences: Robber Barons, the Third Reich and the Invention of Empirical Social Research Christian Fleck (2007), trans. … Continue reading

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Gabriele D’Annunzio – flame of the former future

Gabriele D’Annunzio – flame of the former future STODDARD MARTIN remembers the extravagant life and dangerous times of one of Italy’s literary giants When living in lascivious pleasure in post-Napoleonic Italy, Byron wrote to his publisher, “Scribbling is a disease … Continue reading

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Stefan Zweig – yesterday’s man

Stefan Zweig – yesterday’s man STODDARD MARTIN reviews a life of the aesthete and belletrist Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig Oliver Matuschek (2006), tr. Allan Blunden, Pushkin, £20 The fall of Hapsburg civilization was a catastrophe for some; … Continue reading

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