Volume 54, Number 4 · March 15, 2007
Brilliance, Silence, Courage
By Joyce Carol Oates
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
by Joan Acocella
Pantheon, 524 pp., $30.00
In a memorable passage in the opening pages of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, an observer says of the eminent writer Gustav von Aschenbach: ''...[He] has always lived like this'—here the speaker closed the fingers of his left hand to a fist—'never like this'—and he let his open hand hang relaxed from the back of his chair.'
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