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...French architect collected a few scraps on the life of La Tour, but could find none of his paintings. It was not until 50 years later that a German scholar named Hermann Voss finally discovered the first ones. By now, scholars have identified about 15 of La Tour's paintings. Last week visitors, clustered in one of the galleries of the Frick, could study for themselves the special marks of his great talent-the smooth, stylized surfaces, gleaming in ghostly candlelight; the quiet faces reflecting stolid patience; a slender hand, translucent to the flame...
...fetch live rabbits for the two boa constrictors she kept in her bathroom. Once the management had to insist that the Countess de Salverte move out because her pet lion had grown too big. To survive World War II, the Ritz had to knuckle to such boorish guests as Hermann Göring. It salved its conscience by wheedling more food from the Nazis than it needed, supplying a lower-priced restaurant for Frenchmen around the corner...
...village of Mahlow. They knew his record: he was a onetime (1920-27) publicist for the Krupp works at Essen, later an anti-Nazi novelist and broadcaster. During the war he had escaped the Gestapo's notice by dropping his pen name of Reger for his real name, Hermann Dannenberger...
...burning of the books, the reports of the street fights in Berlin. In that period before and just after Hitler took power, the books coming out of Germany had a confused, bitter, gnarled violence foreshadowing the impending catastrophe. It was probably one of the ugliest periods in literary history. Hermann Broch, born in Vienna and now living in exile in the U.S. (he was jailed when the Nazis invaded Austria), was an eminent Austrian novelist; The Sleepwalkers, a massive and gloomy trilogy, which he calls a philosophical essay, is his big book...
Most readers will wish Hermann Broch had put his essays in one volume, his novels in another. But to anyone who has to deal with post-Hitler Germany, The Sleepwalkers may seem almost compulsory reading, much as Main Street and Babbitt would be required reading for anyone studying the crash...