Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century

Part fiction and part essay, this short book runs through the twentieth century as one mosaic, setting made-up episodes beside documents, dates and borrowed turns of phrase. Its voice is deliberately naive, and from that pose it surveys the century's great moments and breathless speed, arriving at a gloomy view of people who have lost their illusions in an age emptied of ideals. All along it tests where document ends and literature begins.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

126 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Satire (assigned by AI)

First published

2001 by Paseka

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9788071854043 (original)

9781564783820 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)

9781628975017 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)