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This article appeared in the March 28, 2005 edition of The Nation.

March 9, 2005

CHUNNEL VISION

Washington, DC

It is clear from his review of Olivier Todd's book on André Malraux that Stefan Collini has no doubts as to what is the major catastrophe in recent British history: the completion of the Channel Tunnel ["Grand Illusion," Feb. 28]. The review is immensely entertaining (I was carried back to High Table at an Oxbridge college at once). Still, a question will not go away. How did this French poseur manage to write Man's Fate or The Imaginary Museum?

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