The people of that bureaucracy are the subject of a new darkly comedic novel by the Austrian writer Robert Menasse. We rarely talk about the massive bureaucracy that keeps the European Union running. leaving the EU or refugees crossing borders or trade fights and the rise of right-wing politics. Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.40in - 1.10in - 0.Nearly every day on this program, we talk about the European Union, whether it's the U.K.Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation.A tour de force from one of Austria's most esteemed novelists, The Capital is a mordantly funny and piercingly urgent saga of the European Union, and an aerial feat of sublime world literature Book Details These narratives and more are masterfully woven, revealing the absurdities-and real dangers-of a fracturing Europe.

Meanwhile, Inspector Émile Brunfaut attempts to solve a gritty murder being suppressed at the highest level Matek, a Polish hitman who regrets having never become a priest, scrambles after taking out the wrong man and outraged pig farmers protest trade restrictions as a brave escapee squeals through the streets. When tasked with revamping the boring image of the European Commission with the Big Jubilee Project, she endorses her Austrian assistant Martin Sussman's idea to proclaim Auschwitz as its birthplace-of course, to the horror of the other nation states. We meet, among others, Fenia Xenopoulou, a Greek Cypriot recently 'promoted' to the Directorate-General for Culture. Recalling the Balzacian conceit of assembling a vast parade of characters whose lives conspire to form a driving central plot, Menasse adapts this technique with modern sensibility to reveal the hastily assembled capital in all of its eccentricities. Translated with zest, pace and wit ( Spectator) by Jamie Bulloch, Robert Menasse's The Capital plays out the effects of a fiercely nationalistic 'union.' Chosen as the European Union's symbolic capital in 1958, this elusive setting has never been examined so intricately in literature. A highly inventive novel of ideas written in the rich European tradition, The Capital transports readers to the cobblestoned streets of twenty-first-century Brussels.

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