Sketch for a novel on Neville Chamberlain (1942): Introduced by Esther Leslie
introduction to horkheimer, ‘sketch for a novel’ In autumn 1942, while working with T.W. Adorno on Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer began to write a novel. Its lead character was the English prime minister Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940), who, in September 1938, after several meetings with Hitler and along with France’s Edouard Daladier, agreed not to […]