02165cam a2200301 i 4500 678778893 TxAuBib 20230511120000.0 230327s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063272958 HRD 24.99 0063272954 HRD 24.99 TxAuBib rda eng fre Kundera, Milan, 1929-2023, author. Occident kidnappé, ou, La tragédie de l'Europe centrale English. A kidnapped West [BOOK] : the tragedy of Central Europe / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher and Edmund White. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] 80 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Address to the Czech Writers' Congress: The literature of small nations (1967) -- The tragedy of Central Europe (1983). 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. Provided by publisher. 20230511. Europe, Central Civilization. Europe, Central Politics and government 20th century.