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Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members lend an intimate dimension to this vast narrative of those millions who have surged back and forth across the lowlands bordering the Baltic Sea. The immense cataclysm of World War II devastated the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, sending many of their inhabitants to the ends of the earth. WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK belongs in the great tradition of books that redefine our understanding of history, like J. R. Huizinga's THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES and Jacob Burckhardt's THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY. Eksteins's two-pronged narrative is a haunting portrait of national loss and the struggle of a displaced family caught in the maw of history.… (plus d'informations)
3299. Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century, by Modris Eksteins (read Mar 18, 2000) This is a stark book I read because I could not locate the author's Rites of Spring. (I now have, and will read it this month.) This book tells, in a hop back and forth way, of Latvia and the travails of its people, with emphasis on the Second World War. I thought the book would have been better as a straight chronological narrative, but many of the scenes of wartime are powerfully portrayed. ( )
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Geschiedenis is het gevaarlijkste dat de chemie van het intellect heeft ontwikkeld. De eigenschappen en bijwerkingen zijn welbekend. Het veroorzaakt dromen, vergiftig hele volken, zadelt hen op met een vals geheugen, versnelt hun reflexen, houdt oude wonden open, kwelt hen in hun slaap, leidt tot hersenschimmen in de vorm van grootheids- of achtervolgingswaan, en maakt naties bitter, aanmatigend, onuitstaanbaar en ijdel. Geschiedenis rechtvaardigt alles.
PAUL VALÉRY
Geschiedenis is niet de waarheid; de waarheid ligt in het vertellen.
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Er bestaat niet zoiets als was; alles is.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
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Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members lend an intimate dimension to this vast narrative of those millions who have surged back and forth across the lowlands bordering the Baltic Sea. The immense cataclysm of World War II devastated the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, sending many of their inhabitants to the ends of the earth. WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK belongs in the great tradition of books that redefine our understanding of history, like J. R. Huizinga's THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES and Jacob Burckhardt's THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY. Eksteins's two-pronged narrative is a haunting portrait of national loss and the struggle of a displaced family caught in the maw of history.
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