Unquiet Bodies
Thomas Laqueur: Burying the 20th Century, 6 April 2006
Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism
by István Rév.
Stanford, 340 pp., £19.95, January 2005,0 8047 3644 8 Show More
by István Rév.
Stanford, 340 pp., £19.95, January 2005,
“... I should say at the outset that I know István Rév; that I have walked with him through the cemeteries of Budapest and have seen in his company some of the graves he writes about. He is a remarkable man, the product of a culture and a time in which one either drowned or saved oneself through erudition, wit, irony and an unremitting conversation with history ... ”
