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Man in Carriage with Gun

Adam Thirlwell: Bruno Schulz’s Fantasies, 19 October 2023

Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder and the Hijacking of History 
by Benjamin Balint.
Norton, 307 pp., £23.99, April 2023, 978 0 393 86657 5
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... world where ordinary border control is ignored, if not irrelevant. But this is the conundrum which Benjamin Balint has now tried to resolve. In 2o18 he published a history of the trial in Israel over the legal status of Kafka’s manuscripts. In Balint’s analysis, the trial became an allegory of Kafka’s ...

Master of the Revels

Benjamin Markovits: Miklós Bánffy’s Transylvanian Trilogy, 14 November 2002

They Were Counted 
by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen.
Arcadia, 596 pp., £12.99, March 1999, 9781900850155
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They Were Found Wanting 
by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfiled and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen.
Arcadia, 470 pp., £12.99, June 2000, 9781900850292
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They Were Divided 
by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen.
Arcadia, 326 pp., £11.99, August 2001, 1 900850 51 6
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... in the evening by a dinner and a dance’. There we meet most of the main players, including Balint Abady, our hero: ‘when he took off the wide-brimmed felt hat that had become the fashion throughout Europe after the Boer War, the sunlight caught reddish glints in his wavy hair and made his blue eyes seem even lighter in colour. His features had a ...

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