“Death in Rome” and “The Hothouse,” Reviewed
- Posted on April 27, 2026
- By The New Yorker
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“Death in Rome” and “The Hothouse,” Reviewed
Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally shattered country.
