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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.
- 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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