[lit-ideas] Book review by Diderik Humble jr.
- From: "phatic" <phatic@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:34:48 +0100
Author and poet Diderik Humble jr. submitted the following as per
boook review of Milan Kundera's Igorance. It takes an ignorant...
It is up for consideration by the Utopos Book Review Council, 15
Parlsey Street, Sussex. And I will say this only once: Any notes of
queries should be addressed to them.
Editorially,
phatic
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A Last Sermon for Milan Kundera
Communism didn't collapse, Milan. Regimes self-identifying as state
socialist crumbled and dissappeared. In most of the so-called
communist bloc. But even that statement can't be generalized, Milan.
Belo-Russia still self-identifies as such. What about Cuba? What abut
the so-called welfare states, or mixed economies (admittedly
crumbling to the pressures of capital interest), those places where
reformism managed to crush the revolutionaries? What about North
Korea, China? What about the millions of underprivileged that live in
my flower pots under the weight of five hundred suns?
What about the dreams of your youth, Milan? Do you remember what team
you supported before you resigned to the advice of bookmakers? Do you
remember how the blood flowed in your veins, Milan, when you realized
that this here world is conjunctive? Do you think, Milan, that you
were the only one to make your observations?
Do you feel lonely and abandoned now, Milan, or do you hope for the
redemption in a mortal community of cowards? Do you really believe
that they will save your memory? Will they remember their own
betrayal as they will remember yours?
For there is something to glean from your writing, Milan Kundera.
Betrayal.
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