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other way. But I can't say it in English. I give a sigh and say,
"Alors,
Demikov,
c'est
moi."
Mr. Iolas answers with a shake of his shoulders
and his palms up , and a sound, something like "Pouuuuf." I think at
that moment Mr. Iolas was not sure as to who I was: an escaped
Russian or a lunatic American .
About eight months later Mr. Iolas gave me my first New York
show.
Coming in
Partisan Review
• Raymond Aron:
A Memoir
• Julia Kristeva on The Enlightenment
• Tsvetan Todorov:
Heroic Narratives oj the Warsaw Ghetto
• Stanislaw Baranczak on Joseph Brodsky
• Lionel Abel:
The Hero oj Metatheater
• William Phillips:
The Function oj Criticism Today
• Edith Kurzweil on Hungarian Psychoanalysis
• David Bar-Illan:
Israeli Letter
• Nathan Glazer on Life in the Bronx
• Sonya Rudikoff on Virginia Woolf
• Paul Hollander on Fellow Travellers
