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Europeana: A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century (Eastern European Literature)
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by Patrik Ourednik and Gerald Turner
Sales Rank: 211700
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Discount: 20 %
List Price: $12.50
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 120 pages
Published by: Dalkey Archive Press April 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1564783820
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1564783820
Book Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 6.4 ounces
From Booklist
Juxtaposing East and West and blurring Barbie and Buchenwald, Ourednik's stream of historical consciousness shreds familiar narrative trajectories and compresses 100 years of still-fresh history into a roughly equivalent number of pages. The result is a self-consciously ridiculous melange of grandiose vision, junk science, and casually quantified atrocity, an autistic narration of sociological fact with the barest sense of moral gravity. It is a reminder of how horrifying and inscrutable the past century has been. But, like many modernist works pursuing perspective through distortion, this one is helped along considerably by its wit. Czech-born Ourednik has spent the last twenty years in France, and his existentialist bent fits surprisingly well with his linguistic playfulness and his Communist-era gallows humor. The author's professed affinity for Vonnegut and Flaubert is evident, and fans of those authors may particularly enjoy this book's wry cry for a more humane twenty-first century. Pithy, occasionally poignant, and not just for Europeanists. Brendan Driscoll
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Reader Reviews
Born in 1957, Ourednik grew up in Prague under the Communist regime. This short volume is a history of the 20th century; the narrative is presented from the point of view of one who has lived under politcal duress. The plot: the relationship between the individual, institutional and political events that determine his or her interaction and place. Ourednik does a fantastic job of describing a large scale event, the Holocaust, and then descends into the particular. One of the most horrifying moments is when a young man, German returning from the war, discovers that his ex was Jewish. His friends tease him that he has been washing himself with fat made from her dead body. He goes mad and is institutionalized. A cheery bedtime story for all. Note, this is a narrative, not a "novel," but is well worth the read.
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