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London Review of Books Christmas Books

A Talent for Beginnings

Michael Wood

  • Diaries 1899-1942 by Robert Musil, translated by Philip Payne

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Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.

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