Volume 49, Number 6 · April 11, 2002
Surviving for Art
By Neal Ascherson
The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki
by Marcel Reich-Ranicki, translated from the German by Ewald Osers
Princeton University Press, 407 pp., $35.00
When Theodor Adorno said that it was barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz, he unwittingly launched ten thousand essay questions. The remark still resounds, not only in Germany and not always in ways that Adorno would have wished it to be understood. But one of its legitimate implications, it seems to me, is that the expression 'European Civilization' should have become unusable after 1945.
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