The Judge and His Hangman could be devoured in a single sitting, its haunting contents continuing to unspool for days after the backcover folds over.
Tag: literature
Summer Before The Dark: Writing, alcohol and exile with literature’s émigrés in 1930s Belgium
They read, they write, they drink, they have affairs, they probe, they hide, they hurtle towards their own oblivion, their lives “lived out, in order to be described”.
