![]() ![]() History, past and present, falls into place, as she experiences the effect of what has survived. ![]() ![]() One sees through her eyes and her brilliant mind, the deep underlying reasons for the unrest past and present, a racial past at odds with itself, ways of thought and life that could never be reconciled, the one with the other. One goes on an intimate voyage of discovery one shares her findings, her responses, her opinions, her emotions. Rebecca West fell in love with Yugoslavia on her first visit in 1935 in 1937 she went back with her husband, and, in this stupendous work (2 volumes 1200 pages) the reader shares almost her every experience, her searching studies into background, causes, psychology and philosophy of the complex, contradictory people that lived in various parts of this strange country. I don't think I've ever read a book quite like this. ![]()
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