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> Working the actual Tom Stoppard into her novel Trieste, [Drndić] called him out as a “blind observer.” Having learned of his exterminated relatives (including all four grandparents), she contended, he then returned to “his lovely English language and his one and only royal homeland” as if those relatives had never lived. “She was clearly saying,” Lee writes, “Well, fuck you and your ‘charmed life.’ ”

According to Drndić, should Stoppard suffer as reparations for the deaths of his own family, then? Don't parents typically want their children to have more "charmed" lives than their own?

How cruel to hold Stoppard "accountable" for his parents' success at saving him suffering.

That's modern life for you. All have sinned, and come short of the glory of Progress.