The Author of Himself
Original title: Mein Leben
earliest edition we have, 1999 Dtv, 2003 paperback 565 pages
The 1999 Bithell memorial lecture
"Marcel Reich-Ranicki was born of Polish Jewish parents in the Polish town of Wloclawek in 1920. At the age of nine he moved to Berlin and it was at school there that he discovered his deep passion for literature and the theatre. But in 1938, he was deported back to Poland, where he spent the war. Written with subtlety, intelligence and lucidity, Reich-Ranicki's account of the Warsaw Ghetto and the relations between...
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