NOTBack again from Ukraine. As always, great melancholy. Sorrow. Difficulty finding words and inability to talk about anything else. It was like that for Bosnia. Is there room in a lifetime for two such moments? The same feeling that everything – peace, war, the destiny of Europe and the world, mine, that of my people – is being played out? Obviously yes.
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To Volodymyr Zelensky who, before the war, spoke Russian, a journalist asks: “and after? Russian again? will you manage not to hear, in the language of your childhood, the language of hatred and crime”? It was the question of Vladimir Jankélévitch forgetting German after 1945. That of Imre Kertész and Victor Klemperer, more nuanced, who knew of what corruption of the words of the lan…
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illustration: dusault pou “the point”
