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Magris graduated from the university of turin, where he studied german studies, and has been a professor of modern german literature at the university of trieste since 1978. In this fascinating journey claudio magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the rivers source in the, isbn 9781860468230 buy the danube ebook. He is the recipient of many international prizes such as the 1997 baguette strega and the special prize for culture awarded by. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus.
A sentimental journey from the source to the black sea, and telling times, and more on. However, magris himself calls it a drowned novel and the introduction to my italian edition says it is half way between a novel and saggistica, which means something like nonfiction or essay, so here it is. Written at the end of the cold war, magriss danube glimpsed a common humanity at a time of imminent danger. Claudio magris archivos pub libros, epub, mobi, pdf. A sentimental journey from the source to the black sea, published in italian in 1986 and translated into english by patrick creagh in 1989. Be this as it may, the author is widely read and the book is quite fun to read for the intellectual traveller who doesnt mind being taken down a danube.