Serenade
Hans Keilson, 1909-2011
Friday, 3 June 2011

¶ Two years ago, we had never heard of Hans Keilson, the German writer who has died in Nederland at the age of 101. As it is, we have read only one of his books, the surprisingly droll Comedy in a Minor Key, but we recommend it to everybody. The gentle good humor of Keilson’s sense of absurdity quickens our optimism about the future of the species.