Summary
Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once - Independent on Sunday
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN
In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the house…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784871314 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784871311 |
| Author: | Claudio Magris |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Impeccable… Magris, a guide of enormous modesty, has not only read everything: he has been everywhere, met everybody
Impeccable… Magris, a guide of enormous modesty, has not only read everything: he has been everywhere, met everybody – Nicholas Shakespeare * Arts and Books Review *There is so much to praise about this extraordinary book… Irresistably enjoyable – Mark Thompson * Literary Review *Not simply a masterpiece of travel; it is an odyssey… A splendid book, beautifully translated * Independent *A uniquely stimulating and individual portrait of the heart of Europe – Colin Thubron * Sunday Telegraph *This book is full of wonder and delights…Magris writes beautifully; he seems to have read everything. His reading has not made just clever but wise. On almost every page there are passages that make the heart life… Danube is a masterpiece – John BanvilleThis is the best introduction to the culture of central Europe, its genius and its tragedy…a work of great originality, which builds up to a mosaic of spectacle, incident and reflection from which the personalities of the narrator and the Danubian lands emerge * Daily Telegraph *Erudite and original * New York Review of Books *Magris proves a gracious, erudite, engaging and fair-minded companion on a journey no reader will forget * Irish Times *His forte is a wealth of literary and historical allusions from Austrian, French, Italian and German sources, which makes this book not only a treasure chest but also a profoundly perceptive study of central European history… wonderfully stimulating and constantly surprising * The Times *Like the river itself, Magris carries all along with him. Philosophy, war, natural history and politics are blended together with a mixture of curiosity, stylishness and all-encompassing knowledge * Observer *
About The Author
Claudio Magris
CLAUDIO MAGRIS, scholar and critic, was born in Trieste in 1939. After graduating from the University of Turin, he lectured there in German Language and Literature from 1970 to 1978. He holds a chair in Germanic Studies in the University of Trieste, and was for a period a member of the Italian parliament. He is the author of works of literary criticism and plays and has translated works by Isben, Kleist, and Schnitzler. He won international acclaim for his remarkable study of middle Europe, Danube.
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