A Ripple of the Polonaise
Perry Anderson: Work of the Nineties, 25 November 1999
History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the Nineties
by Timothy Garton Ash.
Allen Lane, 441 pp., £20, June 1999,0 7139 9323 5 Show More
by Timothy Garton Ash.
Allen Lane, 441 pp., £20, June 1999,
“... evil (at least not yet). Culturally, too, they offered few of the images d’Epinal – the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, Wenceslas Square, the Crown of St Stephen; the liberator Pope, the philosopher President, the Nobel electrician – with which the media could uplift audiences in the West. Kadare might be a better writer than Havel, but apart from a few ... ”
