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<p>In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in the recent past. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes how Europe has been moving toward a new identity.<p> Enzensberger makes a witty and knowledgeable traveling companion, deliving into surprising corners and byways -- from the back alleys of Budapest to the halls of the Italian mint -- and striking up conversations with everyone from bankers to revolutionaries, astrologers to apparatchiks. In the process, he suggests that Europe's strength lies increasingly in embracing diversity and improvisation, not bigness and regimentation. He enables us to see with fresh eyes one of the most exciting parts of the world today.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Enzensberger's disillusioned travel diary based on his wanderings through six European countries is an acerbically witty look at a continent beset by corruption, shadow economies, discredited political parties, and laboring under a crazy-quilt of special-interest groups. This German essayist ( Pol

Author

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Publisher

New York: Pantheon Books

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679731597

Subjects

Travel, History, Biography