In 1941, at the age of eighteen, the author went to Britain with the Canadian Army, then transferred to the RCAF and spent the last year of the war as a pilot with an RCAF transport squadron in Burma. "I had a good war," he says. "I did a full operational tour, never dropped a bomb or fired an angry shot and only got shot at once." After the war he took his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley and for the next twenty-eight years was a professor of German Literature at the University of Toronto. Apart from founding and editing the professional journal Seminar, writing professional articles and reviews, and a monograph on Hermann Hesse, this book represents his only foray into publishing.
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