Posted on 07/08/04
War crimes through a cultural lens
Vermeer in Bosnia:A ReaderBy Lawrence WeschlerPantheon Books,412 pages, $37.95The tough moral and philosophic core of this engaging and eclectic collection of essays by long-time New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler is formed by the three opening pieces on the Yugoslav tragedy: Vermeer in Bosnia, Henry V at Sebrenica and Aristotle in Belgrade. The three geniuses -- Vermeer, Shakespeare and Aristotle -- provide, for Weschler, keys to the interpretation of what happened in one of the great tragedies of the 1990s, the collapse of Yugoslavia.
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