Volume 36, Number 14 · September 28, 1989
About the European House
By Neal Ascherson
Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Martin Chalmers
Pantheon, 325 pp., $18.95
No better moment to introduce Hans Magnus Enzensberger's book to an English-speaking public could have been found than the summer of 1989. This is turning out to be one of the big European years. It is not one of those moments when great powers reshuffle the Continent, as they did in 1919 and in 1945. This year, in contrast, counts among those rarer occasions when the peoples of Europe try to do the reshuffling themselves. If we take 1989 as the title year for a period of upheaval which began before it and will certainly extend beyond it, then '1989' will change more and for a longer time than the events of 1968, and quite possibly more than those of 1848.
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