Charmed Lives
Patrick Parrinder, 23 April 1987
Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story
by Dan VittorioSegre.
Peter Halban, 273 pp., £12.95, January 1987,1 870015 00 2 Show More
by Dan VittorioSegre.
Peter Halban, 273 pp., £12.95, January 1987,
To the Land of the Reeds
by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey Green.
Weidenfeld, 148 pp., £9.95, February 1987,0 297 78972 4 Show More
by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey Green.
Weidenfeld, 148 pp., £9.95, February 1987,
Ernesto
by Umberto Saba, translated by Mark Thompson.
Carcanet, 166 pp., £9.95, March 1987,0 85635 559 3 Show More
by Umberto Saba, translated by Mark Thompson.
Carcanet, 166 pp., £9.95, March 1987,
“... The English title of Dan VittorioSegre’s Storia di un Ebreo Fortunato, Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew, has complex resonances. If, as Frank Kermode has recently remarked in this paper, memoirs and confessions are still to some extent separate genres, then it may be said that a conviction of his own good fortune is the distinguishing mark of the memoirist ... ”
