Excellent - and in fictional terms, could Elias Canetti's Die Blendung (1935) have inspired Munby? (I am hazy about the dates.) It's interesting that it wasn't until 1946 that Canetti's book was translated into English as Auto-da-fe, perhaps missing the Fascism-warning aspect.
Excellent - and in fictional terms, could Elias Canetti's Die Blendung (1935) have inspired Munby? (I am hazy about the dates.) It's interesting that it wasn't until 1946 that Canetti's book was translated into English as Auto-da-fe, perhaps missing the Fascism-warning aspect.