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“... grasp. Only approximations and artifice are left to adults who have nothing but memory to go on. Irmgard Keun’s first-person narrator in Child of All Nations supplies a different form of narration; Kully is a knowing child who speaks for herself. (These days, they do this all the time. The child narrative is practically a genre. But, in 1938, it was ...”

“... von Cziffra said. Towards the end of his life, Roth went there with his partner, the novelist Irmgard Keun. ‘Only there,’ Keun said, ‘where he came from, was he not splintered into a thousand fragments.’ But it was one thing to visit Galicia, another to return to Brody itself. As Roth wrote of the antihero ...”