autor | Thomas Mann |
tytuł | This Peace |
tłumaczenie | H. T. Lowe-Porter |
seria wydawnicza | brak informacji |
miejsce wydania | New York |
rok wydania | 1938 |
wydawnictwo | Alfred a Knopf |
liczba stron | 38 |
rodzaj oprawy | płócienna |
format | 21 cm |
dodatkowe informacje | 1st edition. Tekst w jęz. ang. |
stan | db. [niew. przybr. opr., niew. otarcia kraw. opr.]. |
THE EVENTS of the past few weeks have plunged a large part of the world — I may still call it the better part — into profound disillusionment, dis-couragement, and even despair. We have been the shocked, disgusted, and cruelly bewildered specta-tors at proceedings of far-reaching and decisive sig-nificance; it seems vain to hope for any reversal or revision, any possible way in which the outwitted peoples of Europe can come to their senses and see what has been brought to pass in a few days by the swift flow of events. They have too much inherent consistency, those events. They were treachery and crime, in the guise of hypocrisy and demoralized pacifism; but however unfortunate and disastrous [...]