Volume 49, Number 19 · December 5, 2002
Portrait of the Artist
By Ian Buruma
Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II
by J.M. Coetzee
Viking, 169 pp., $22.95
In Brideshead Revisited Anthony Blanche, the Oxford aesthete, teaches Charles Ryder a lesson about the English upper classes. One has to watch out for their charm, he warns, that dangerous, corrosive charm, which is a threat not only to impressionable youths, but to English art as well.
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