Boyd Tonkin

Mocking the mandarins

In an entertaining satire, the Austrian writer makes gentle mockery of the gibberish spouted by Brussels’s mandarins

issue 16 February 2019

  • The Capital

    Robert Menasse, translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

    Maclehose Press, pp. 432

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