As laid out in A Kidnapped West, a short collection of essays, central Europe is the west occupied by the east; the land of small nations born out of the disintegration of the old continental ...

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Positioned since 1945 on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain, Kundera considered central Europe to belong instead, in cultural terms, to western Europe: the “kidnapped West”. READ MORE ...