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A chronicle of the diversity and wealth of cultures, predominantly from Eastern Europe, that have played a formative role in shaping contemporary Europe but now risk being forgotten.
A Herodotus of Mitteleuropa, cultural historian Karl-Markus Gauß is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the breadth and complexities of cultures and societies in Europe before, during, and after its decades of division in the twentieth century.
In this book, Gauß takes his readers on a thirteen-station journey across Europe. From Brussels to Istanbul and from Naples to Opole, Gauß weaves a Sebaldian web of connection and coincidence into a hybrid cultural history. Significantly, Gauß's metropoles are not the well-trodden, thoroughly explored, and minutely documented megalopolises and cultural capitals that have been mythologized by writers great and small. There are no visits to Berlin, Paris, Rome, or Madrid, although he does make time for Vienna, where he looks not for imperial remnants, but for traces of genius unrecognized by most. Gauß's lodestars are small but cosmopolitan towns on the periphery, such as Slaghenaufi, Vacaresti, Fontevraud, Dragatus, Vrzdenec, and Sélestat. In these far-flung towns, Gauß assembles a canon of overlooked humanists, expelled or extinguished by political and historical forces that swept the continent.
Contents
The Grimacer of Beaune
Liberation Boulevard: Belgrade
The Wide World of Dragatuš:
At Home with Oton Župancic
On Making an Appearance in Siena
The Dead Woman of Sélestat
The Rain of Brno: Ivan Blatný and the Moravian Portuguese Poet
Lost in Bucure?ti: Bulevardul Mihail Kogalniceanu
The Backdrops of Opole
The Republic of Piazza San Francesco
The Glass Sea: The Bells of Slaghenaufi
The Vandals of Fontevraud
The Dolls of Arnstadt
Europe-Africa: A Trip to Brussels
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