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“claudio magris”

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  • Microcosms

    by Claudio Magris ...
    Translated by Iain Halliday ...
    Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris.In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste café, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Journeying

    by Claudio Magris ...
    Translated by Anne Milano Appel ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeysA writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the span of several decades. He has traveled through these years with many beloved companions, to whom ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Blindly

    by Claudio Magris ...
    Translated by Anne Milano Appel ...
    Who is the mysterious narrator of Blindly? Clearly a recluse and a fugitive, but what more of him can we discern? Baffled by the events of his own life, he muses, "When I write, and even now when I think back on it, I hear a kind of buzzing, blathered words that I can barely understand, gnats droning around a table lamp, that I have to continually swat away with my hand, so as not to lose the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Snapshots

    by Claudio Magris ...
    Translated by Anne Milano Appel ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A collection of brief, but intimate meditations on life and culture ranging from controversial matters to private momentsThe internationally acclaimed author Claudio Magris offers a collection of brief “snapshots” reflecting on life and culture from 1999 to 2013 through his very personal lens. Some pieces portray private, intimate moments, while others offer views on public, sometimes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Different Sea

    by Claudio Magris ...
    Translated by Dr M. S. Spurr ...
    An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its abundant 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 ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Blindly

    by Claudio Magris ...
    Translated by Anne Milano Appel ...
    Who is the mysterious narrator of Blindly? Clearly a recluse and a fugitive, but what more of him can we discern? Baffled by the events of his own life, he muses, "When I write, and even now when I think back on it, I hear a kind of buzzing, blathered words that I can barely understand, gnats droning around a table lamp, that I have to continually swat away with my hand, so as not to lose the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Blameless

    by Claudio Magris ...
    Translated by Anne Milano Appel ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    From one of Europe’s most revered authors, a tale of one man’s obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity’s darkest atrocities in order to oppose them Claudio Magris’s searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age and every country. His tale centers on a man whose maniacal devotion to the creation of a Museum of War ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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