Fault Lines by David Pryce-Jones Criterion Books, 2015, 364 pages, $24.95 ______________________________ While living in Czechoslovakia for six months in 1994 after the collapse of communism, I became aware of a group of aristocratic families spread over Central Europe, the Kinskys, Harrachs, Lobkovitzes and others, some returning to claim their palaces and castles around Prague. One of them, Prince Karl Schwarzenberg, became Foreign Minister in President Havel’s government. In parallel with them there existed in Central Europe a group of assimilated Jewish families who had made fortunes as Europe industrialised in the nineteenth century. On his mother’s side David Pryce-Jones…
Subscribe to get access to all online articles
Already a member?
Sign in to read this article
Digital Subscription
$88/ YR
Get the latest ideas from Australia’s most insightful writers.
- Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
Printed & Digital Subscription
$108/ YR
For avid readers of leading ideas
from Australia’s brightest.
- Printed & Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- Quadrant Patron includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- All new editions of Quadrant Books
- Exclusive invitations to Quadrant Dinners, book launches and events.