Volume 48, Number 11 · July 5, 2001
Scenes from a Marriage
By Amos Elon
Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936–1968
edited and with an introduction by Lotte Kohler, translated from the German by Peter Constantine
Harcourt, 459 pp., $35.00
Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher first met in Paris in 1936. At the time, Paris was the capital of German literature. Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Joseph Roth, Manès Sperber, Alfred Döblin, and other celebrities of the Weimar period stayed there in cheap hotels, 'like kings who had lost their throne.' They lived in a kind of ghetto, according to Arthur Koestler, who claimed that neither he nor any of his fellow exiles were ever invited to a French house.
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