A Kidnapped West The Tragedy of Central Europe
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11.04.2023
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HarperCollinsSeitenzahl
112 (Printausgabe)
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Linda Asher
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Englisch
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9780063272972
We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations feels pressing.Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine
Kundera focuses on the relationship of Europe's central 'small nations' like Czechoslovakia and Ukraine to Western culture and argues that their cultural identities were increasingly threatened.New York Book Review
A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia's current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to the rest of Europe.
Milan Kundera's early nonfiction work feels especially resonant in our own time. In these pieces, Kundera pleads the case of the small nations of Europe who, by culture, are Western with deep roots in Europe, despite Russia imposing its own Communist political regimes in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and elsewhere. Kundera warns that the real tragedy here is not Russia but Europe, whose own identity and culture are directly challenged and threatened in a way that could lead to their destruction. He is sounding the alarm, which chimes loud and clear in our own twenty-first century.
The 1983 essay translated by Edmund White (The Tragedy of Central Europe), and the 1967 lecture delivered to the Czech Writers' Union in the middle of the Prague Spring by the young Milan Kundera (Literature and the Small Nations), translated for the first time by Linda Asher, are both written in a voice that is at once personal, vehement, and anguished. Here, Kundera appears already as one of our great European writers and truly our contemporary. Each piece is prefaced by a short presentation by French historian Pierre Nora and Czech-born French political scientist Jacques Rupnik.
These two landmark essays explore the clash between culture and power:
- The Plight of Small Nations: Kundera's passionate defense of cultures like those of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, whose Western identities are threatened by their geography.
- A Voice from the Prague Spring: Experience a pivotal 1967 lecture where the young Kundera lays out the crucial role of literature and freedom for a nation's survival.
- The West Kidnapped: Unpack the central thesisthat the tragedy is not just Russia's aggression, but a West that has forgotten its own cultural unity and abandoned its own.
- A Prophetic Warning on Russia: Read the essays that, decades before the current conflict, sounded a clear and anguished alarm about Russia's imperial ambitions and the threat to Ukraine and Europe.
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