Sylva (Jean Bruller) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. notes)

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1

I am wondering today, more than thirty years after, if I have not inverted the order in which I read these books. It is of no consequence, however. What is remarkable is that a prodigy of the same kind should be at the root of such widely different stories, one by a Czech, the other by an Englishman.

2

These remarks strike me today as rather tepid. But in those days the very word “racialism” had not yet been heard of, Hitler was an unknown prisoner of the Weimar Republic, and everyone in this respect thought more or less along Kipling’s lines. How things have changed since!