Books: Cold Times Are Coming

THE AGE OF THE FISH—Odon von Horvath—Dial ($2).

For 37 years Odon von Horvath lived in the shadow of a huge, sinister, apparently dead but always growing tree—the German State. He was born in 1901 in what was then Serbia, where his father served in the Austro-Hungarian embassy. He was educated in Budapest. During his adolescence the German tree trunk burned itself hollow with war.

Afterwards, young von Horvath tossed his literary chestnuts into the hot ashes.

At first they came out beautifully—Max Reinhardt took to him, and when he was 27 one of his...

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