Post-World War II Literature

This Sybille Bedford Biography Is Worthy of Its Subject

This Sybille Bedford Biography Is Worthy of Its Subject

Masterful writer Sybille Bedford finally gets a biography as rich and expansive as her life from Selina Hastings.

Modiano’s ‘Villa Triste’ and the Dull Flâneur

Modiano’s ‘Villa Triste’ and the Dull Flâneur

The protagonist in Patrick Modiano's Villa Triste is a monomaniacal flâneur in world shrunk to a few predictable details.