Mykola Riabchuk (Orden de los libros)

Mykola Riabchuk Orden de los libros

Mykola Riabchuk es un intelectual público y periodista ucraniano, conocido por sus artículos y ensayos analíticos. Su obra profundiza en la política ucraniana, la identidad nacional y ofrece un análisis poscolonial de la historia de Ucrania. La perspicaz perspectiva de Riabchuk brinda a los lectores una comprensión más profunda del contexto ucraniano. Sus evaluaciones críticas y sus reflexivos ensayos lo convierten en una voz importante en el pensamiento ucraniano contemporáneo.

The Fence of Metternich's Garden

256 páginas
9 horas de lectura

This collection of essays reflects the personal experience of a Ukrainian intellectual engaged, since his Soviet-time youth, in a painstaking but fascinating process of the both cultural and political ‘Europeanization’ of his country. The title refers, ironically, to the notorious Chancellor Metternich’s quip that Asia presumably begins at the eastern fence of his garden (or, as another apocryphal version maintains, at the eastern end of the Viennese Landstrasse). This is a story of both exclusion and inclusion, of walls and fences, but also of a longing for freedom and a quest for solidarity. It is a book on different ways of being a ‘European’—at both the collective and individual level,—despite various challenges or, perhaps, thanks to them.