Saturday, June 25, 2011

a refugee and an unorthodox writer


Most impressive and winning here is John Lukacs:
In 1974 he was to write of his
gratitude...[and] contentment with the fact that, after all is said, I, a refugee and an unorthodox writer and academic, have been able to secure for myself private conditions of existence in this country that are beyond the dreams of my former countrymen, and without having had to sacrifice my intellectual independence in the bargain.

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