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标题：The Patriot
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作者：John Upton
期刊名称：Transnational Literature
电子版ISSN：1836-4845
出版年度：2015
卷号：7
期号：2
出版社：Flinders Humanities Research Centre
摘要：The claws are what distinguish her: beneath the quiet delivery of dates and facts is rapine. Lydia lectures to the tourists in Krakow on betrayal that cries through the bars of Chopin's music; how the flat lands of grain were harvested in blood, and how revenge is sweet. She taught at university for twenty years until the Communists discovered how she felt about the Russians since Peter and before. She loves her grandkids, her piano and clean underwear. She plays the etudes with ¨¦lan and passion, tries to give up smoking twice a year, and guides the buses. She tells you Poland had an empire through half of northern Europe, till the Germans and the Russians stole it all, and you can see she hates them both impartially. If you say to her the Nazis invaded Poland she insists, "No ¨C Germans did it, they just say it was the Nazis so they can pretend that things are different now, except they're not". She insists the world is brainwashed, but that Poland will rise again in time. Blood demands blood