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← Back to all issuesGranta 11: Greetings from Prague
Spring 1984
In November 1956, the director of the Hungarian News Agency, shortly before his office was flattened by artillery fire, sent a telex to the entire world with a desperate message announcing that the Russian attack against Budapest had begun. The dispatch ended with these words: We are going to die for Hungary and for Europe. What did this sentence mean? Milan Kundera, A Kidnapped West.
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Save me from this Love
Leonard Michaels
‘The producer and I became good friends, bowling around after work in Berkeley, New York, and LA.’
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Certain Thoughts Arising out of being Pointed out by my Two-year-old Son
Raymond Tallis
‘I was also unable to imagine that future years would generate a pair of green-brown eyes which would look at me, a little brain that would recognize me, a small mouth that would re-christen me 'Daddy’.’
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Testimonial
Martha Gellhorn
‘Governments think big; they think geopolitically. Human rights are irrelevant to geopolitics. This may kill us all in the end.’
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Mystery without End
Gabriel García Márquez
‘In a city where everyone knows everyone else and where there are secret agents everywhere - from the military, the police and the security forces - it's hard to believe that he was not found out.’
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Cheap Intellectuals
Mario Vargas Llosa
‘Europeans want a fictitious Latin America on to which they can project their own desires. They want a Latin America which satisfies a longing for political engagement that is not possible in their own countries.’
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Deeper into the Heart of Borneo (Part II)
Redmond O’Hanlon
‘James, resplendent in leopard skin and hornbill feathers, looked even more solemn than is his habit.’
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The Night Shift
Jay McInerney
‘You see yourself as the kind of guy who appreciates a quiet night at home with a good book. A little Mozart on the speakers, a cup of cocoa on the arm of the chair, slippers on the feet.’
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Chile
Ariel Dorfman
‘But it is not only external, physical problems that Chilean culture is facing. By suddenly being forced into the open, artists and intellectuals are now coming up against an internal dilemma.’
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Letters to the Editor
‘It is not about the author, it is about the place; it is not about perceptions or feelings or thoughts, it is a record of another land, another people, another experience.’
