Javier Cercas is professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Girona and one of Spain’s best-known and most popular…
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Many of the most acclaimed novels to come out of Spain in recent years are what you might call ‘aftermath…
‘Vienna, City of My Dreams’, intoned the Austrian Richard Tauber, one of the 20th century’s finest operatic tenors; ‘Goodnight, Vienna’,…
Alexander Lernet-Holenia and Baron Bagge were admired by no less than Stefan Zweig, who wrote to the author in 1936:…