Appelfeld 1990

Christopher Ricks

The upright fiction of Aharon Appelfeld arises from the level facts of his anguished and brave young life. Like the novels themselves, a note on their author is laconic, lapidary and on oath:

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[] Christopher Ricks discusses the following novels by Aharon Appelfeld:

[] Badenheim 1939. Dent, 148 pp., £3.50, 1981 (originally published 1980), 0 460 02273 3.

[] The Age of Wonders. Weidenfeld, 207 pp., £11.95, 1987 (1981), 0 297 79155 9.

[] Tzili: The Story of a Life. Dutton, 185 pp., $12.95, 1983 (1982).

[] The Retreat. Quartet, 125 pp., £3.95, 1985 (1984), 0 704 33487 9.

[] To the Land of the Reeds. Weidenfeld, 148 pp., £9.95, 1987 (1986), 0 297 78972 4.

[] The Immortal Bartfuss. Weidenfeld, 137 pp., £10.95, 1988 (1987), 0 297 79272 5.

[] For Every Sin. Weidenfeld, 168 pp., £11.95, 1989 (1989), 0 297 79700 X.

[] All translated by Jeffrey Green.


Vol. 12 No. 3 · 8 February 1990 » Christopher Ricks » Appelfeld 1990 (print version)
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