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Milan Kundera’s “A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe” is a landmark essay that has become an intellectual manifesto. This text is programmatic and prophetic: it not only raised the question of the identity of Central Europe, but also set an ethical and cultural perspective for decades to come for the conversation about the enlargement of Europe, the meaning of integration, and the dignity of small languages and nations. Written in 1983, it proclaims: culture, not geography or politics, determines belonging to the West. Czechs, Hungarians, Poles are not satellites of the East, but living voices of European civilization, temporarily stolen from its body.
At a time when war in the heart of Europe once again calls into question the boundaries of civilizations and the true value of the “European community,” Kundera speaks to us with exceptional intellectual clarity.