Аннотация
Malcolm Bradbury
Doctor Criminale
For Dominic (a Nineties person) – and for Matthew too
What is history to me?
—Ludwig WittgensteinHe who has eyes to see and ears to hear grows convinced that mortals can conceal no secrets. He whose lips are silent, chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes through every pore.
—Sigmund FreudEverything is the same,
Nothing is better.
A mule is equal with a great professor.
—Argentinian Tango1
I first met her at the Booker Prize for Fiction . . .
As it happened (and most of this did more or less happen), I first met her at the Booker Prize for Fiction. We both turned up at the great autumn prizegiving dinner in the London Guildhall; she was there to tell one kind of story, I was there to tell another. She was an assistant producer on the live television coverage for the BBC’s ‘Late Show’, which for once was going out earlier than usual; I was covering the great event for the What’s Happeni...
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