Volume 37, Number 2 · February 15, 1990
The Old Country
By Michael Ignatieff
Danube
by Claudio Magris, translated by Patrick Creagh
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pp., $22.95
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography
by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by H. F. Broch de Rothermann
Knopf, 290 pp., $19.95
At Christmas in Romania some of the students marching toward the guns of the Securitate were heard to chant, 'Europe is with us! Europe is with us!' They gazed imploringly into the cameras of Western television, unaware of the irony that, until that moment, our amnesia had been colluding with their tyrants. It took the revolution of these brave students for us to recall that Romania had been a part of Europe all along.
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