Through the Trapdoor
Jeremy Harding: Walter Benjamin’s Last Day, 19 July 2007
“... out, for most, to be illusory. The Narrow Foothold, a 16-page memoir, opens in Marseille, where Carina Birman was waiting in September 1940 to get out of the country. Birman had been the legal adviser at the Austrian Embassy in Paris until the Anschluss, when it was shut down. She seems to have remained in Paris and ... ”