Volume 23, Number 8 · May 13, 1976
A Man for the Hour
By Leon Wieseltier
The Worm of Consciousness and Other Essays
by Nicola Chiaromonte, edited by Miriam Chiaromonte, introduction by Mary McCarthy
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 270 pp., $10.00
Nicola Chiaromonte was born in southern Italy in 1901, and studied at the University of Rome. His true education, however, was of a different kind, the 'real European education' of which Jan Kott has recently written. As an anti-Fascist he went into exile in Paris in 1934, where he was for a short while associated with nonviolent anarchist groups. In 1936 he flew with André Malraux's Republican squadron in Spain, and appears as Scali in Malraux's fictional account of the war, Man's Hope. (Scali is the art-historian-turned-bomber who brings the works of Plato to the front.)[1]
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