6/30/2023 0 Comments The capital robert menasse![]() ![]() However, he also knows this plan will not work. A master strategist and fencer, Strozzi knows that the President would never oppose a plan to embellish the EC’s image. The project reaches the “virtually unflappable” Romolo Strozzi, the private secretary to the President of the EC. What follows is a wonderful description of how to kill a project without ever openly doing so. Why not put Auschwitz survivors at the centre, to emphasize the fact that that the EC was created to unite Europe and to ensure that the Holocaust is never repeated? He convinces Xeno, who starts to contact her colleagues for support. One of her staff, Martin Sussman, has an idea. She thinks that masterminding a jubilee event for the EC’s 50th anniversary will bring her to the notice of those who have the power to help. ![]() But by foregrounding the people who work for the EC, with their individual quirks, worries and talents, Robert Menasse brings the institution to life.įenia Xenopolou (aka Xeno), the head of the Communication Department in the Directorate-General for Culture, is desperate to get out of Culture, the least prestigious of all the EC Directorates. The European Commission seems an unlikely setting for a novel. ![]()
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