Mortal Mischief Keith Donohue The Times It's 1958

The Times It's 1958

failure and broken lives

Engleby can be read as a lament for a generation and the country it failed

while his classmates swap football stickers

1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels

Mortal Mischief Keith Donohue The Times It's 1958It is Vienna at the beginning of the last century, and Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is only just developing and viewed with a mixture of excitement and suspicion. The world of 1900s Vienna is one where philosophy, science and art are at their most exciting and flourishing, with the coffee shops full of men and women debating the latest cultural and political theories. Liebermann's good friend Oskar