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A Kidnapped West audiobook
- By: Milan Kundera
- Narrator: Charles Constant
- Category: Political Freedom, Political Science
- Length: 1 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 11, 2023
- Language: English
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A Kidnapped West Audiobook Summary
“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.
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A Kidnapped West Full Details
| Narrator | Charles Constant |
| Length | 1 hours 25 minutes |
| Author | Milan Kundera |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | April 11, 2023 |
| ISBN | 9780063272989 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Kidnapped West is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: westerns, history europe, war in ukraine, book, ukraine, russian aggression, threat to europe's integrity, european history politics and literature, european history politics and literature, european history, politics, and literature, identity of a people based on culture language, identity of a people based on culture language, identity of a people based on culture, language, defense of central europe which belongs to the west, russian threat to the identity and survival of the small nations, hungary czechoslovakia poland ukraine the jews, hungary czechoslovakia poland ukraine the jews, hungary, czechoslovakia, poland, ukraine, the jews, threat to the survival of europe itself, mirror to much recent european history, survival of europe, linda asher translator, linda asher translator, linda asher, translator, edmund white, russian authoritarianism, how can democracy resist authoritarianism whether communism or fascism, how can democracy resist authoritarianism whether communism or fascism, how can democracy resist authoritarianism, whether communism or fascism, address to the czech writers union in 1967, address to the czech writers' union in 1967, the tragedy of central europe, prague spring, soviet tanks rolled into prague in 1968, communist regimes imposed by russia, hungary 1956, pierre nora, french edition published by gallimard, jacques rupnik, voice-driven, personal and passionate voice of these pieces, identity politics avant la letter, franco-czech novelist milan kundera, born in brno, lives in paris, west has its origin in rome and roman christianity, east has its origin in byzantium and orthodox christianity, Political Science, Political Freedom The BISAC Subject Code is Political Freedom, Political Science
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