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String of Beginnings: Intermittent Memoirs 1924-1954
String of Beginnings Intermittent Memoirs 19241954 Author:Michael Hamburger Michael Hamburger is a perennial outsider watching the absurdities of life with a mixture of cynicism and insecurity. No matter how far he travels, he never comes home for the simple reason that he has no home. He belongs nowhere-which is to say he can function anywhere. He is always alive to the singularity of every place person and ... more »circumstance he encounters. The result is an unsettling Kafkaesque feeling of displacement that make his memoirs strangely compelling.« less