Ms Feigel focuses too widely on obscure novelists, in particular a melancholy Austrian emigre, Hilde Spiel, while more illustrious contemporaries Virginia Woolf, Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh haunt the background like ghosts at the feast.

Feigel过于专注冷门小说家，特别是忧郁的奥地利移民Hilde Spiel，而那些杰出的同代作家Virginia Woolf，Anthony Powell和Evelyn Waugh却像鬼魂般游离在盛宴之下。