![]() Inevitably there's more than a whiff of the satirical about Menasse's handling of "Brussels bureaucracy". The obvious attribution holds good until a surprising twist. ![]() "The Capital" ("Die Hauptstadt" in the original language - it won the German Book Prize in 2017) seems to imply the main centre of EU activities and its headquarters, the Berlaymont building on Rue de la Loi. Austrian Robert Menasse's novel is the first I've read to bring to life the complexity of such a difficult balance, and to root it in Brussels (though there are also scenes in Vienna, Krakow - and Auschwitz). ![]() She also saw the difficulties ahead in holding the centre of European solidarity over and above the immediate national concerns of the Union's members. ![]()
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