A Different Sea - Brossura

Magris, Claudio

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1860460526 ISBN 13: 9781860460524

Casa editrice: Harvill Press, 1995

Riassunto

Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the abundantly diverse Austro-Hungarian city of Gorizia with its mixed population and culture, to spend several years living on the Patagonian pampas, alone with his ancient Greek texts, his flocks and every now and then a woman. He has been taught by his closest friend, Carlo, a philosopher/poet who commits suicide in his early twenties, to search for an authentic life, free of social falsehoods. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroys every chance he has of a normal existence; even after his return to live a life of ever-increasing isolation by the Istrian seashore, his attempts at human intercourse, at meaningful love, are thwarted. In recounting the life and character of Enrico, ostensibly one of Life's failures, Claudio Magris paints a remarkably shrewd and observant picture of a whole world in ferment, that of the decaying Austro-Hungarian empire, shaken to its foundations by the Great War, and emerging from the German occupation and the Communist revolution ripe for disintegration and forever seeking, as does Enrico, for a reason to go on living.

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Recensione:

"Claudio Magris can now be numbered among the great Europeans of the late twentieth century, a writer whose books illuminate not just the history, literature and philosophy of the continent but the human condition itself" (Guardian)

"Quietly devastating and...bitterly funny study of the dangers of philosophy...a very human book" (Independent)

"This shrewd and deeply intelligent novelist...deserves to be read again and again" (Daily Telegraph)

L'autore:

Claudio Magris is the author of Danube, a work described as a masterpiece by a great number of critics, and which has been translated into most major languages. He previously taught German at the University of Turin. He has translated the works of Ibsen, Kleist and Schnitzler and currently lectures in the faculty of Literature and Philosophy at Trieste University.

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• Editore: Harvill Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1860460526
• ISBN 13: 9781860460524
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112