De Mortuis
Christopher Driver, 28 June 1990
The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflection on Death
edited by Rosemary Dinnage.
Viking, 291 pp., £14.99, April 1990,0 670 82763 0 Show More
edited by Rosemary Dinnage.
Viking, 291 pp., £14.99, April 1990,
Death, Ritual and Bereavement
edited by Ralph Houlbrooke.
Routledge, 250 pp., £35, October 1990,0 415 01165 5 Show More
edited by Ralph Houlbrooke.
Routledge, 250 pp., £35, October 1990,
In the Face of Death
by Peter Noll, translated by Hans Noll.
Viking, 254 pp., £15.99, April 1990,0 670 80703 6 Show More
by Peter Noll, translated by Hans Noll.
Viking, 254 pp., £15.99, April 1990,
“... resources for buying labour tend to be concentrated among the well-to-do and the educated. Peter Noll, the author of a thoughtful diary of his last months, was a German-Swiss academic lawyer who was lucky in his family, his friends (including Max Frisch, whose valediction is printed here), his doctors, his Christian or post-Christian ... ”