The Benefit of Doubt: Essays

By Frederic Raphael

In Frederic Raphael's wide-ranging essays familiar faces are portrayed with a ruthless clarity that seeks to conceal nothing. Considered is Primo Levi, a champion in the fight between civilization and barbarism. Other essays pursue Aristotle, surrealism, Gore Vidal, cultural criticism, Heidegger, the emperor Hadrian, Arthur Koestler, the Jews, David Storey, the Greeks, Schnitzler, and cinema.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857546350
• ISBN13: 9781857546354
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 224 Pages