Real Absences
Barbara Johnson
- Post Scripts: The Writer’s Workshop by Vincent Kaufmann, translated by Deborah Treisman
Harvard, 199 pp, £31.95, June 1994, ISBN 0 674 69330 2 - The Oxford Book of Letters edited by Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode
Oxford, 559 pp, £20.00, July 1995, ISBN 0 19 214188 0
‘Reading others people’s letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into the lives of others,’ claims the dustjacket of The Oxford Book of Letters. In contrast, Vincent Kaufmann cheerfully introduces his study of writers’ letters by admitting that ‘there is nothing more tedious in a writer’s work than his correspondence.’
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