Café Europa - Slavenka Drakulic
Café Europa - Slavenka Drakulic Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free-market economy and de jure…
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Café Europa - Slavenka Drakulic
Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free-market economy and de jure democracy. In this brilliant work of political reportage filtered through her own experience, we see that Europe remains a divided continent. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, "in everyday life, the revolution consists much more of the small things - of sounds, looks and images.
Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? In the place of the fallen Berlin Wall, there is a chasm between East and West, consisting of the different way people continue to live and understand the world. What divides us today?
To say simply that it is the understanding of the past, or a different concept of time, is not enough. But a visitor to this part of the world will soon discover that the Eastern Europeans live in another time zone. They live in the twentieth century, but at the same time they inhabit a past full of myths and fairy tales, of blood and national belonging.
Café Europa - Slavenka Drakulic