{"id":238,"date":"2008-06-29T23:08:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T21:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=238&amp;language=en"},"modified":"2008-06-29T23:08:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T21:08:47","slug":"the-new-york-times-reviews-the-white-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times reviews The White King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/29\/books\/review\/Trussoni-t.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">The New York Times<\/a>, Danielle Trusonni reviews The White King<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cHistory and Utopia,\u201d the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran speculated about whether it\u2019s \u201ceasier to confect a utopia than an apocalypse.\u201d Utopia and its discontents, so central to Eastern European writers, are central to Gyorgy Dragoman\u2019s darkly beautiful novel. A scathing portrait of life in a totalitarian society, \u201cThe White King\u201d is both brutal and disarmingly tender. Dragoman\u2019s answer to Cioran\u2019s question is plain: Utopia creates its own hell.<\/p>\n<p>The full piece is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/29\/books\/review\/Trussoni-t.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The New York Times, Danielle Trusonni reviews The White King In \u201cHistory and Utopia,\u201d the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran speculated about whether it\u2019s \u201ceasier to confect a utopia than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kritikak","category-reviews","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}