What They Wrote About the War
APRIL 21, 2021
ON AUGUST 1, 1914, Thomas Mann was summering in a villa outside the Bavarian town of Bad Tölz. His children were down the street rehearsing a play with their cousins when they heard that Germany had declared war on Russia. They ran home to tell their papa. He could scarcely believe it. His first reaction was to say, darkly, that this would never have happened if Tolstoy were still alive. But in the next few days he discovered in himself a surprising enthusiasm. He began to write an essay. He would call it “Thoughts in Wartime.”
President Mary McAleese presents to Michael Houllebecq. By Irish America Staff
The winner of the annual International IMPAC Dublin literary award was announced on May 13 in Dublin as Michel Houellebecq for his novel
Atomised. In this sixth year since the award’s inception, nominees included well–known authors and Booker Prize winners, Margaret Atwood for
The Blind Assassin, Peter Carey for
The True History o the Kelly Gang, and Irish writer Michael Collins for
The Keepers of Truth.
The award, established by Dublin City Civic Charter in 1996, is sponsored by IMMPAC, the global U.S.–based productivity enhancement giant, whose chairman, James B. Irwin (a member of
This interview was conducted in the autumn of 1994, a few days before Steiner s induction as the first occupant of the Lord Weidenfeld Professorship of Comparative Literature at Oxford. Since this is the first chair in comparative literature at either Oxford or Cambridge, and since Steiner has always had a mixed and often controversial reception in England, his appointment was greeted with an explosion of interest from the British press, the main theme of which was the return of the prodigal.
Born in Paris to Viennese parents in 1929, Steiner came to the United States in 1940. He took his B.A. at the University of Chicago, his M.A. at Harvard, and his D. Phil. at Oxford, where, as he would wryly remind his audience at his inaugural address, the first version of his dissertation was rejected because it was too close to a field that Oxford did not teach in those days: comparative literature.
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