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Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher - Review

07 October 2008 By Adam 0 In Fiction

Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher
As this novella is set in a TB sanatorium, readers may look for debts to Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain. The sensibility of Scarred Hearts, however, belongs to another world: Bukovina, Polish Galicia, and German-speaking Prague.
For all Max Blecher’s experience of Paris, this is plain writing, never portentous, always attentive to detail, [...]

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