”Curious anecdotes such as this aperçu from dramatist Peter Turrini abound in Cecilia Hansson’s compilation of interviews with eighteen writers, artists and film-makers from Austria, Hungary and Romania. Originally conceived as a declaration of love to Vienna and to art, her project expanded into an ambitious examination of the artist’s role in response to political pressures and constraints. This thread – the common experience of dictatorship and repression – draws together what might otherwise be a collage of disparate portraits from the three central European countries.”

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