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A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy Of Central Europe,New
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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 MagazineKundera focuses on the relationship of Europes central small nations like Czechoslovakia and Ukraine to Western culture and argues that their cultural identities were increasingly threatened.New York Book ReviewA short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for Milan Kunderas subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russias current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to the rest of Europe.Milan Kunderas 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 twentyfirst 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 Czechborn French political scientist Jacques Rupnik.
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