Magnetic North. Ellen Ginsey's conversations with Thomas Wenceslaus

Ellen Ginsey's Conversations with Thomas Wenzlova

This book intertwines the history of post-war Eastern Europe, the dissident movement and literature. Thomas Ventslova, personally acquainted with Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky and many other prominent figures of the second half of the twentieth century, was one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. "Magnetic North" talks about the importance of ethical elections and the artistic resistance of totalitarianism for more than half a century. This book also focuses on the works of Wenceslaus, which expands our understanding of the importance of this writer, whose books are important to modern European culture.