She gives me partridges
Bee Wilson: Alma Mahler, 5 November 2015
Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler
by Oliver Hilmes, translated by Donald Arthur.
Northeastern, 360 pp., £29, May 2015,978 1 55553 789 0 Show More
by Oliver Hilmes, translated by Donald Arthur.
Northeastern, 360 pp., £29, May 2015,
“... title is taken from the famous swirling Kokoschka painting of himself in bed with Alma – Susanne Keegan presented Alma’s anti-Semitism as tangential to her personality: a ‘tasteless’ aberration. Keegan noted that she had many Jewish friends and treated Jewish men such as Schönberg and Mahler as ‘honorary ... ”