Hubert Hubi News Today

I have been dipping into a selection of autobiographical writing, partly to survey the lay of the land in its contemporary provinces, but also to escape the contemporary by turning to books of an older generation and/or from different parts of the world: Dugmore Boetie’s Familiarity is the Kingdom of the Lost, AS Mopeli-Paulus’s The World and the Cattle, Günter Grass’s Peeling the Onion, Marcel Pagnol’s My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle. And then, Gregor von Rezzori’s...