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Title: Grim and somewhat disappointing
Review: This book is a compilation of several radio lectures that the German- or Austrian-born author (the name is a pseudonym) delivered over French radio in, if memory serves, the 1950s. I confess to have made it only through the first section and part of the second. The tone is extremely bleak, the prose is difficult (all French prose defies easy translation, IMHO, and comes out sounding imprecise and windy), and the ultimate message is pretty unrewarding: It turns out that old age is even worse than you feared! Don't pick up this book looking for any solace.
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