Real Absences
Barbara Johnson, 19 October 1995
Post Scripts: The Writer’s Workshop
by Vincent Kaufmann, translated by Deborah Treisman.
Harvard, 199 pp., £31.95, June 1994,0 674 69330 2 Show More
by Vincent Kaufmann, translated by Deborah Treisman.
Harvard, 199 pp., £31.95, June 1994,
The Oxford Book of Letters
edited by Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode.
Oxford, 559 pp., £20, July 1995,0 19 214188 0 Show More
edited by Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode.
Oxford, 559 pp., £20, July 1995,
“... into the lives of others,’ claims the dustjacket of The Oxford Book of Letters. In contrast, Vincent Kaufmann cheerfully introduces his study of writers’ letters by admitting that ‘there is nothing more tedious in a writer’s work than his correspondence.’ Thrilling or tedious? Isn’t this somehow the question always raised by the prospect ... ”
