Volume 5, Number 1 · August 5, 1965
Grand Illusions
By Steven Marcus
The Looking Glass War
by John le Carré
Coward McCann, 320 pp., $4.95
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
by Giorgio Bassani
Atheneum, 293 pp., $4.95
The Second World War remains the overwhelming event of our time. It is possible that even now we have not yet really begun to face it. It is certain that we have not begun to overcome it. It is a trauma in the collective mind of Western society. So much was brought to an end by it; so much can never exist again as a result of it. And so much happened in it for the first time.
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