At the Fence of Metternich's Garden
Author | : Mykola Riabchuk |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783838214849 |
ISBN-13 | : 3838214846 |
Rating | : 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Download or read book At the Fence of Metternich's Garden written by Mykola Riabchuk and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the personal experience of a Ukrainian intellectual engaged, since his Soviet-time youth, in a painstaking but fascinating process of the both cultural and political ‘Europeanization’ of his country. The title refers, ironically, to the notorious Chancellor Metternich’s quip that Asia presumably begins at the eastern fence of his garden (or, as another apocryphal version maintains, at the eastern end of the Viennese Landstrasse). This is a story of both exclusion and inclusion, of walls and fences, but also of a longing for freedom and a quest for solidarity. It is a book on different ways of being a ‘European’—at both the collective and individual level,—despite various challenges or, perhaps, thanks to them.