It’s not really fair to rate this book because the truth is I don’t remember much of it when I started it a year ago. What I do remember was it took me a very long time to finish the last few chapters because it was not really interesting. I also remember several chapters feeling like a name drop opportunity and I would suggest this to people who are trying to find the who’s who of European literature in the 1930s but would find little else of use in it.