Inside Outside (2012)
“Our story is a commonplace tale; it has been told many times. The broad chart of our particular fortunes nevertheless reveals something important about the perplexity of those people whose familiar existence was disrupted by the great upheavals of the middle of the twentieth century, who were obliged to remake their lives in circumstances that produced confusion, anguish and, for some, a debilitating sense of loss.
I know something about my grandparents, a little about my maternal great-grandpa...rents, but beyond them there is nothing. Or rather, what came before must have been those inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian world who were at one time Austrian, at another Hungarian, who may have lived in Bohemia, or in Moravia, or even outside the actual political confines of the Empire, perhaps in places like the Russian segments of Poland. In other words, though these people lived in and were no doubt citizens of the Dual Monarchy—the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Empire, to give it its most pompous title—they did not belong exclusively to any one of the various groups constituting that cumbersome, polyglot realm.MoreLess
I know something about my grandparents, a little about my maternal great-grandpa...rents, but beyond them there is nothing. Or rather, what came before must have been those inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian world who were at one time Austrian, at another Hungarian, who may have lived in Bohemia, or in Moravia, or even outside the actual political confines of the Empire, perhaps in places like the Russian segments of Poland. In other words, though these people lived in and were no doubt citizens of the Dual Monarchy—the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Empire, to give it its most pompous title—they did not belong exclusively to any one of the various groups constituting that cumbersome, polyglot realm.MoreLess
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