Anne Applebaum

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  • Speak, Memory Loved

    I reread this last night, and I still think it's one of the most beautiful memoirs ever written.

    fivebooks.com 2012-03-05

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  • The Snows of Yesteryear Recommends

    Like The Snows of Yesteryear, which is a straight autobiography, it evokes a time and a place that no longer exists.

    fivebooks.com 2012-03-05

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  • Memoir of Hungary Recommends

    Sándor Márai is one of the great Hungarian novelists. He was in Hungary during the war, and left in 1948. This book is about a neutral intellectual's encounter with communism, and it records what he saw as it happened.

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  • A World Apart Recommends

    He wasn't in the Gulag for long – only a couple of years, until 1941 – but what I like about his book is that, unlike many memoirs, it's not just about his story or what happened to him. It's more like a series of short stories, of the kind written by [Varlam] Shalamov or one of the Gulag novelists. Each chapter is a story about a different person or situation, together with an accompanying set of thoughts or meditations.

    fivebooks.com 2012-03-05

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  • The Captive Mind Recommends

    He is important to read because he's simultaneously critical of his characters and sympathetic to them. It's very difficult, now, to think back into that time, when people had very limited choices. If you chose to oppose the regime, that might mean you couldn't get medicine for your sick mother, your children couldn't go to school and you might get kicked out of your apartment. We don't have to face those choices. Miłosz is very good at explaining them.

    fivebooks.com 2012-03-05

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  • The Captive Mind 5 Mar 2012 Recommends
  • A World Apart 5 Mar 2012 Recommends
  • Memoir of Hungary 5 Mar 2012 Recommends
  • The Snows of Yesteryear 5 Mar 2012 Recommends
  • Speak, Memory 5 Mar 2012 Loved