A city’s thwarted political history
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A city’s thwarted political history
Bratislava’s earlier identities—Pozsony and Pressburg—frame a compressed meditation on the city’s recurring attempts at freedom. The description links those thwarted ambitions to the Czechoslovak Legion’s repeated arrival and violence, then turns to the persistent wind as a possible remnant of the free city that never existed. History and haunting meet in the image of political longing lingering in a place, giving the book a distinctly urban and historical point of departure.
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Bratislava, once Pozsony, before that Pressburg, kept trying to be a free city, but each time the Czechoslovak Legion came in, started killing people, threw their weight around enough to slap on the kibosh. The wind unrelenting all year long is believed by some to be the vestige of this free city that never came to be, as the breath of ghosts may sometimes be felt in haunted locations-a great history of unrequited political desire.-Thomas Pynchon
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