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NATO Staff Centre Magazine

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Europeana, A Brief History
NATO Staff Centre Magazine, Feb 24, 2012

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Big Other (Lily Hoang)

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Patrik Ourednik's Europeana : A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
by Lily Hoang
Big Other, November 23, 2009
The twentieth century boiled down to painstakingly concise and shocking truths. No one is left unscathed or uncriticized in this book. Ourednik's dry humor pairs well with sentences that are dense in their simplicity, that makes sense. For instance : “Psychiatrists said that in many people the First World War provoked traumas that had been previously hidden in the (…)

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The Mookse and the Gripes

NLLG — 2012-09-04T17:29:24Z

Patrik Ourednik : Europeana
The Mookse and the Gripes
August 24, 2011
Europeana is a relatively short book at around 125 pages, but in those pages it meshes together an abundance of events and themes of the twentieth century, from the wars to the introduction of the Barbie Doll, the whole time poking fun at the retrospectively ignorant 1989 essay by Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History” ; Europeana‘s final sentence is this :
But lots of people did not know the theory and continued (…)

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Reading Patrik Ourednik

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