Prospect's editor David Goodhart said yesterday: "Frederic Raphael's essay is a polemical piece and I'm happy to publish it. This non-sexual act of altruistic solidarity was, of course, too trivial to warrant mention by his biographer." Already shaken by Parkinson's disease, he contributed punctually, although he had warned that writing in English was still a labour. My only personal contact with him was when I edited Bookmarks, a volume of essays compiled to raise funds to campaign for Public Lending Right. Raphael says that Koestler "was a hallowed figure in my youthful literary pantheon. If we are to dispraise famous men, who is to be spared?" "The abuse of women was (if it is not still) a certificate of virility in many great men, of whom Bertrand Russell is, in many respects, a more lurid and despicable example. Do we not, therefore, admire the Parthenon or read Catullus? In his essay castigating Professor Cesarani's biography of Koestler, Raphael expands on his theme: "Cesarani deplores his subject's phallocratic behaviour towards women, just as we might deplore the acquiescence of the noblest Romans and Athenians in slavery. The blame is on the perpetrator of the crime." Rape is a crime and it is the rapist's responsibility. Then, years later, I got rather drunk at a dinner party and it suddenly came out."Ī spokeswoman for the Scottish Women's Aid Centre, which took a keen interest in the removal of the Koestler bust from Edinburgh University, said yesterday: "Mr Raphael's remarks are extremely unhelpful. But I still couldn't admit he'd raped me. I'd always thought there must have been others. One day, our friend Anthony Crosland said, `You know he's a rapist'. "Everyone kept going on about what a wonderful man Koestler was. Without being ungallant, however, I was reminded of a judge who told me that the crucial questions in such cases were: `Did you bite him? Did you scratch him?' He writes: "As for the rape of Jill Craigie (Mrs Michael Foot) which has made all the headlines, we need not doubt that force was used or that understandable shame explains why the facts have taken so long to come out. We are entitled to wonder - as Cesarani did not, but should have - what they were doing with him."įrederic Raphael, whose novel about Oxbridge life The Glittering Prizes was a best seller, is particularly provocative about the incident involving Ms Craigie. "They did not deserve what he did, or is said to have done, but they were not foolish virgins and they knew Koestler's character.
Is it any disparagement to suggest that they might, at the time, have been excited by the risks they were taking? Both had enough intelligence to read Koestler for a dangerous man. Box 381255, Cambridge, MA 02238-1255 are the only current post office boxes registered to Frederic.Both, he says: "have a right to their grievances, but both were ambitious and experienced women who liked the company of the powerful and the famous. Public records show that the phone number (978) 546-3920 is linked to Tatyana G Raphael, James A Greenan. The phone number (781) 274-9194 is also used by Vanessa M Ash, Donna M Schluckebier. Four persons, including Frederic Raphael, Tatyana Raphael, Massour A Sindi, Mansour Sindi, listed the phone number (617) 945-0777 as their own, various documents indicated. Frederic has phone numbers registered: (718) 541-8598 (Cellco Partnership), (617) 945-0777 (Comcast Phone Of Massachusetts, IncCellco Partnership). Residence history shows that Frederic was associated with five people, including Jennifer M Nichols, Kay Sung, Cary Arnold Cohen.
Cambridge, MA and Somerville, MA belong to the seven cities where Frederic has lived.
Address history shows that Frederic also lived at 7 Oak St, Lexington, MA 02421. Patti Lee Gottesman, Edward M Greenfield, and eight other persons are also associated with this address. The residency of Frederic is at 601 3rd Str, NY 11215-3002. Alternative name, for example, Fred I Raphael, Frederic M Raphael, Frederic Raphael, Tatyana Raphael, Fred Raphael, Fredric Rapheal, can be used by Frederic.
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