SOURCE: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," in New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 17, October 24, 1991, pp. 20-22.
[In the following review, Wood discusses the almost-palpable sense of history in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.]
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