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“... to read – and is written in a formal, three-piece style that is respected by the translator Harry Zohn. Not the least part of what interests me in Sperber comes from the fact that he was born ten years after the novelist Joseph Roth, and that his life follows the same movements as Roth’s: born in a village in Galicia, came to Vienna as a ...”

“... as a writer of aphorisms. Auden, for example, in his Faber anthology has 24 entries by Kraus. So Harry Zohn’s Selected Aphorisms, from which I have quoted in this review, is welcome, but also, in a sense, misleading. The aphorisms are inevitably taken out of context, which is of course in the nature of aphorisms: but what kind of picture would one get ...”

“... introduced to Anglophone readers, in translations by the Viennese refugee and Brandeis professor Harry Zohn:* Many share my views with me. But I don’t share them with them. To have talent, to be a talent: the two are always confused. Why should one artist grasp another? Does Mount Vesuvius appreciate Mount Etna? At most, a feminine relationship ...”

“... on the table’. The cheeps get the last laugh, however, in Benjamin’s 13th thesis, included in Harry Zohn’s translation of Illuminations, edited by Arendt in the late 1960s. ‘Wenn es hart auf hart kommt’, Benjamin wrote in German, often translated as ‘when it comes to the crunch’. Zohn and Arendt give ...”