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"Buddenbrooks", Thomas Mann’s First Published Novel
The title of the novel has been known to me since I can remember such things, and I thought possibly I had actually read it when I was recently urged by someone to read it. I hadn’t before, but now I...
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“Europe” is Old and Fading Away
I put “Europe” between inverted commas because it is more than a physical and political region of the world—it is a concept, a culture, an historical memory. It also represents a people. Genetic...
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Russia is not the Soviet Union—what are ‘we’ afraid of?
Over a quarter of a century has passed since the Soviet Union dissolved into its constituent republics, and since its satellite countries in Eastern Europe have declared their independence from Soviet...
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What is Europe?
In 2002 I transplanted myself, due to an impulse of and from the heart to the northern aspect of Europe from the cultural decay of San Francisco, California, USA. My heart is still in San Francisco,...
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