The Washington Post, September 30th, 2001
EMBERS By Sandor Marai Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway Knopf. 213 pp. $21 In a castle in Hungary, near a deep forest, the old General has been living alone with his servants, passing the days in reading Plato, overseeing his wine cellar, and turning over in his mind the events of a single day in 1900. As Embers opens, he receives a letter from his oldest friend: "The General went into his room, washed his hands, and stepped over to his high, narrow standing desk; arranged on its surface of unstained green felt were pens, ink, and a perfectly aligned stack of those notebooks ...
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