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founded the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation in 1965

The 1950s are often seen as the “grey decade”

Denise Saul

where he was a Newman Scholar

Vengeance is Mine Format:Paperback scenes and smells recalled fromA Jewish prisoner, beaten and abused by his captors, finds himself alone with his concentration camp commandant. The commandant's back is turned. His pistol lies within reach. What should the prisoner do? Written in 1943 while Friedrich Torberg, a Viennese Jew, was living in exile in California, Vengeance is Mine is the first English translation of one of the earliest works of Holocaust fiction. In it, Torberg grapples with a choice facing