GOETHE FORBID

How is it possible that you publish a review of Ward Just’s recent novel (“The Translator,” reviewed by Dick Roraback, Nov. 3) chockablock with the most baleful anti-German cliches?

“The unreadable Goethe”! Your reviewer would be the one to know. Rare, actually, these days to find something as awful as that in your pages.

MICHAEL ROLOFF, MALIBU. “The unreadable Goethe” is a quote from Just’s book.--Ed.