Beneath the carapace. (Malcolm Muggeridge; includes related article) (Cover Story)

National Review | December 31, 1990| | Copyright

BENEATH THE CARAPACE

I FIRST came across the name of Malcolm Muggeridge when, at the age of 12, I pulled down from my father's shelves his book on the Thirties. Written in a wonderfully funny, beguiling style, it recreated the decade when Europe had been sleepwalking toward war as a kind of pageant of the absurd--and I was so haunted by this shrewdly mocking way of looking at the personalities and events which make up contemporary history that if there was any one book which made me want to become a writer it was this.

A year or two after I had read his ...

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