At first glance, William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central demands respect as a serious and sober historical novel. The book is massive; the cover foreboding. The characters are dark and gloomy, and the incidents related are even darker and gloomier. Vollmann focuses his attention on the most tragic circumstances of the middle decades of the 20th century—inc…
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