‘Just because the stranger has become a neighbour does not mean we have to work any less hard to understand him well’[1]
To paraphrase Edward Said – “everyone who writes about eastern Europe must locate himself vis-à-vis eastern Europe; translated into his text, this location includes the kind of narrative voice he adopts, the type of structure he builds, the kinds of images, themes, motifs that circulate in his text – all of which add up to different ways of addressing the reader, containing eastern Europe and speaking in its behalf.”
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