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Pankaj Mishra*1 Age of Anger: A History of the PresentのPenguin版「まえがき」に曰く、

I started thnking about this book after the Indian elections of 2014 when voters, including my own friends and relatives, elected Hindu supremacists to power. I finished writing it during the week in 2016 in whichBritain voted to leave European Union*2. It went to the printers in the week that Donald Trump was elected president of the United States*3. Each of these earthquakes revealed fault lines that I felt had been barely noticed over the years, running theough inner lives as well as nations, communities and families. (…) (p.ix)