Europe central
(Book)
In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century. The result is a daring and mesmerizing perspective on human actions during wartime.
Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional: a young German who joins the SS to reveal its secrets and stop its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons and with different results, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich laboring under Stalinist oppression. This last story is perhaps Vollmann's signature accomplishment in this volume. Also explored are the fates of artists and poets ranging from Käthe Kollwitz and Anna Akhmatova to Marina Tsvetaeva and Van Cliburn.
Notes
Vollmann, W. T. (2005). Europe central. New York, Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Vollmann, William T. 2005. Europe Central. New York, Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Vollmann, William T, Europe Central. New York, Viking, 2005.
MLA Citation (style guide)Vollmann, William T. Europe Central. New York, Viking, 2005.
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Steel in motion (Europe, 1939-1945) --|t Saviors (USSR, 1918) --|t Mobilization (Germany, 1914) --|t Woman with a dead child (Germany, 1927) --|t You have shut the Danube's gates (USSR, 1936) --|t Elena's rockets (USSR, 1931) --|t Maiden voyage (Germany, 1933-1939) --|t When Parzival killed the red knight (Germany, 1934) --|t Opus 40 (USSR, 1935) --|t Operation Magic Fire (Germany, 1936) --|t And I'd dry my salty hair (USSR, 1937) --|t Case White (Germany, 1939) --|t Operation Barbarossa (USSR, 1941) --|t The Sleepwalker (Germany, 1936-1945) --|t The palm tree of Deborah (USSR, 1906-1942) --|t Untouched (Germany, 1939-1945) --|t Far and wide my country stretches (USSR, 1936-1968) --|t Breakout (USSR and Germany, 1942-1946) --|t The last field-marshal (Germany and USSR, 1942-1957) --|t Zoya (USSR, 1941) --|t Clean hands (Germany, 1942-1945) --|t The second front (USSR, 1943) --|t Operation Citadel (USSR, 1943) --|t The telephone rings (USSR, 1944) --|t Ecstasy (USSR, 1945) --|t Operation Hagen (Germany, 1945) --|t Into the mountain (Germany, 1945) --|t Denazification (Germany, 1945) --|t Airlift idylls (West Germany, 1951) --|t The red guillotine (East Germany, 1963) --|t We'll never mention it again (USSR, 1959) --|t Why we don't talk about Freya anymore (East Germany, 1960) --|t Operation Wolund (USSR, 1961) --|t Opus 110 (USSR, 1943-1975) --|t A pianist from Kilgore (USSR, 1958) --|t Lost victories (West Germany, 1962) --|t The White Nights of Leningrad (USSR, 1941). |
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