A poignant piece of self-revelation, sprinkled with some trenchant observations on the way the dead hand of history has weighed down the former Warsaw Pact countries
Susan Rubin Suleiman is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. The recipient of numerous honors in the U.S. and abroad, she is the author of Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature and many other works of literary criticism.
