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"Oliver VII"
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London, UK (Guardian): Is it possible to construct a novel out of pure joy? To construct a Shakespearean idyll when Europe is being overrun by Nazis, and the writer, personally, is in great danger? Perhaps when put like that, it makes it all the more necessary and urgent to create such a fantasy. But you'd imagine that it wouldn't be the easiest of tasks, not at the best of times. There is a strong danger - one would have thought an inescapable one - of falling into insipidity.
by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix
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