A brighter, clearer light.(book on popular German book reviewer)

New Criterion | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, translated by Barbara Bray. Princeton University Press, 404 pages, $35

There is no American counterpart to Germany's critical impresario, Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Known, with a rather pointed admiration, as the "literature pope," Reich-Ranicki, or MRR, revitalized the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's book section in the 1970s during his fifteen-year tenure as literary editor. In 1988 he became a household name with his hour-long televised talk-show "Literarische Quartett" ...

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