My review of Andrzej Stasiuk’s On the Road to Babadag in the summer issue of The Cerise Press.
“They lived in the old Jewish quarter, at the edge of a Slovak town, at the foot of a Hungarian castle, so in order to exist and not disappear, they had to create their own rules, their own special theory of relativity, and a gravity that would keep them on the surface of the earth and not let them fall into the interstellar void, into the vacuum of oblivion.”
— On the Road to Babadag, p. 17
Named after a woman abducted by Zeus in Greek mythology, Europe has retained something of its mythic identity in spite of the best efforts to provide it with a real-world definition.
Photo – Demonstartions in Albania by Godo Godaj, January 2011
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