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A kidnapped West : the tragedy of Central Europe / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher and Edmund White.

Van Pelt Library DAW1050 .K8613 2023
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kundera, Milan, author.
Contributor:
Asher, Linda, translator.
White, Edmund, 1940-2025, translator.
Standardized Title:
Occident kidnappé. English
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Europe, Central--Politics and government.
Europe, Central.
Europe--Civilization.
Europe.
Genre:
Essays.
Speeches.
Physical Description:
80 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers [2023]
Summary:
"A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for the 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."--Amazon.
Contents:
"Milan Kundera: address to the Czech Writers' Congress, 1967" / presentation by Jacques Rupnik
Address to the Czech Writers' Congress: The literature of small nations (1967)
A kidnapped West, or the tragedy of Central Europe, 1983, by Milan Kundera / presentation by Pierre Nora
The tragedy of Central Europe (1983).
Notes:
Originally published as Un Occident kidnappé, copyright 2021 by Editions Gallimard, in Paris, France.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contains:
Container of: Kundera, Milan. Tragédie de l'Europe centrale. English.
ISBN:
9780063272958
0063272954
OCLC:
1356621961

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