The Air Show at Brescia 1909
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Octavo, hardcover, xi, 254 pp., illustrated. A fine copy in dust jacket. The author elucidates Kafka's subtle ambiguities about the consequences of flight, d'Annunzio's lust for power in aviation, Puccini's enthusiasm for speedy escapes, and Curtiss's modest heroism. More