Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors: | Donskis, Leonidas.
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ISBN: | 9789401208178 9401208174 9789042035430
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay "The Tragedy of Central Europe." Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social and political change, yet that world was still far from realizing that we would enter the last decade of the twentieth century with the Soviet empire and its network of satellite states missing from the political map. Kundera was challenged by Joseph Brodsky and György Konrád for allegedly excluding Russia from the symbolic space of Europe, something the great author deeply believes he never did. To.
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Other form: | Print version: 9789042035430
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