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Danube

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784871314

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 298g

  • RRP: £11.99

Danube

'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 houses and monuments - from Ovid to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vital crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784871314

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 298g

  • RRP: £11.99

Reviews

  • 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 Banville

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About the Author

Claudio Magris

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.

Claudio Magris

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