This is an automatically translated description

This book intertwines the history of post-war Eastern Europe, the dissident movement, and literature. Thomas Ventslova, who personally knew Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky and many other prominent personalities of the second half of the twentieth century, was one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. Magnetic North tells the story of the importance of ethical choices and artistic resistance to totalitarianism for more than half a century.

This book also focuses on Ventsslovas's fiction, broadening our understanding of the importance of this writer, whose books are essential to contemporary European culture.