Danube

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BOHÉMJA "Magris writes beautifully (and is beautifully translated by Patrick Creagh); he seems to have read everything. His reading has not made him clever but wise. On almost every page there are passages that make the heart lift . .. Danube is 'international' in the best, Jamesian sense; it is alsó, I believe, a masterpiece" JOHN BANVILLE "Neither a travel book, nor vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once" EDWARD STEEN, Independent on Sunday In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity is limitless, guides his reader from the river's source in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid and Marcus Aurelius to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vitai crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and... Tovább

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BOHÉMJA "Magris writes beautifully (and is beautifully translated by Patrick Creagh); he seems to have read everything. His reading has not made him clever but wise. On almost every page there are passages that make the heart lift . .. Danube is 'international' in the best, Jamesian sense; it is alsó, I believe, a masterpiece" JOHN BANVILLE "Neither a travel book, nor vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once" EDWARD STEEN, Independent on Sunday In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity is limitless, guides his reader from the river's source in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid and Marcus Aurelius to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vitai crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam. "Certain books, as you read them, have the power to make every other book dispensable.They contain all life within their pages... It is a masterpiece ol timing, leading us into a forbidden Europe that is suddenly free" NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE, Daily Telegraph "The finest account of Middle Europe" IAN THOMSON, Observer Vissza