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Where is Central Europe now?

Where is Central Europe now?

Russia's war on Ukraine revives a debate kick-started by Milan Kundera 40 years ago

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History of the Present (fortnight ending 22 June 2024)

The 2023 reissue of Kundera’s famous essay.

Nine Central Europes in Search of an Other

One of the most influential political interventions made by a novelist in our time, Milan Kundera’s essay on Central Europe, appeared four decades ago. The fact that it was republished in book form last year speaks …

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