The Economist (US), May 22nd, 1993
SOME of the world's most enduring stories are about the disturbingly sudden appearance of a Savage Outsider in a community that regards itself as settled and, by its own lights, civilised. The 19th-century legend of Kaspar Hauser, that strange boy with no origins and no language, who appeared as if from nowhere, has in recent years reappeared in a film by Werner Herzog and in the poetry of Georg Trakl. Who was he, and where had he come from? Was he a visionary? A wolf boy? A child of God?
An Australian novelist, David Malouf, has tapped the same source of fathomless fear in "Remembering Bab...
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