For a Jew to move through post-war Europe is to move through hordes of ghosts, vast animated crowds that, since 1945, are not there at all – up in smoke. The feathery touch of the mysteriously absent is felt on all sides.


Bech at Bay (1998)

John Updike Quotes

For a Jew to move through post-war Europe is to move through hordes of ghosts, vast animated crowds that, since 1945, are not there at all – up in...

For a Jew to move through post-war Europe is to move through hordes of ghosts, vast animated crowds that, since 1945, are not there at all – up in...

For a Jew to move through post-war Europe is to move through hordes of ghosts, vast animated crowds that, since 1945, are not there at all – up in...

For a Jew to move through post-war Europe is to move through hordes of ghosts, vast animated crowds that, since 1945, are not there at all – up in...