This Week's Bookshelf: Mitsuyoshi Numano's Review of "Past and Thought, 7 Volumes" by Alexander Herzen, Translated by Yukihiko Kaneko and Mitsuo Naganawa

Mainichi Shimbun

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Factuality

Ownership

(Iwanami Bunko, 1507-1716 yen) The time has come for the "Phantom Masterpiece" to be read. In the summer of 1827, two innocent boys in their mid-teens were looking out over the town from a small hill. "The sun was setting, the domes of the churches were shining here and there, and the town stretched out endlessly below the mountain. A fresh breeze was blowing. We stopped.