The Benefit of Doubt: Essays

by Frederic Raphael

In Frederic Raphael's essays we meet familiar faces, known names, but the way he reintroduces them to us, with a ruthless clarity which seeks to conceal nothing, make us revalue them. Doubt is what keeps us from the tyranny of bien pensant sentimentalism, from accepting the nostrums of a journalised and televisualised culture.
The first man we meet in The Benefit of Doubt is a tutelary spirit of Raphael's world, Primo Levi, a champion in the unequal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857546350
• ISBN13: 9781857546354
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 224 Pages