“... the aporia’ that Rose proceeds to tell.Rahel Varnhagen, salonnière and belletrist; Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary and Marxist theorist; Hannah Arendt, immigrant to America and liberal darling: each, Rose believes, lived and worked through a critical moment in German history, and all three were ‘especially qualified witnesses of the ...”

“... Kingdoms – afterward – they say –In perfect – pauseless Monarchy –Whose Prince – is Son of None –‘Immortality’, the kingdom of which ‘they’ speak, is a chimera presided over by a fictional monarch: the ‘Son’ of nobody. Life is a ‘brief Drama in the flesh’, ‘the term between’ two eternities of blankness.Her ...”

“... their favourite places, hiking in the Carpathians and staying for some days at the summer villa of Prince Stirbei in Braşov.In the middle of the holiday, Joe’s friend and colleague Vlad Eker is ‘purged’ from his job at Steaua by the ‘Red’ trade union as a ‘lackey of capitalism’. His bosses, who include Joe, continue to pay his salary ‘sub ...”