Confessions .
..
On March 12, 1933-when Nazi terror had already re–
placed legal processes throughout most of Germany-the
magazine
Simplicissimus,
published in Munich, brought out
an issue of incredible daring, ridiculing the brown shirts. A
few days later its courageous editor escaped across the Swiss
frontier, just in time.
That editor, Franz Schoenberner, has now written his me–
moirs. They are a banquet of fascinating reminiscences and
literary digressions, with pen-sketches and anecdotes of D. H.
Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hans Carossa, George Grosz,
and other famous writers and artists whom Mr. Schoenberner
knew personally.
But the CONFESSIONS is more than a book of delightful
literary gossip. Mr Schoenberner, son of a Protestant pastor,
was born into the intellectual middle class, a caste composed
of ministers and professors, doctors and lawyers. He is able
to picture the European intellectual as a type, with all his
charms, virtues, and futilities. And, as he tells about the
rise of fascism in Europe and the reactions of intellectuals to
it, he reveals something of the reasons for their failure to
combat it successfully.
Confessions of a
EUROPEAN
INTELLECTUAL
By FRANZ SCHOENBERNER
$2. 75
at yollr bookstore
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