Volume 54, Number 3 · March 1, 2007
Executioner Songs
By John Banville
House of Meetings
by Martin Amis
Knopf, 246 pp., $23.00
Here is Joseph de Maistre, jurist, philosopher, and grand reactionary, in exile in St. Petersburg in the first part of the nineteenth century, contemplating the figure of the Executioner, with whom so many of his fellow French aristocrats had suffered an all too intimate encounter a couple of decades previously:
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