If they made The Imitation Game about Alan Turing, the British mathematician who cracked Germany’s military code in World War II, they should make at least three movies about Robert Conquest, the Anglo-American Stanford University historian and poet, who died on Monday at the age of 98 in Palo Alto, California.
The first would be about one of the greatest historians of the 20th century, the second about a poet extraordinaire who entered the English canon, and the third about what the French call homme à femme, a man who loved women and was loved by them. Four of them, he …read more
Source: European Voice
