Bøger af Claudio Magris

Magris’ berømte hybridværk, der rummer en fascinerende rejse i tid og rum med Donau-områdets blomstrende kultur som knudepunkt. Magris introduceret med Donau en helt ny genre mellem roman og essay, dagbog og selvbiografi, kulturhistorie og rejsebeskrivelse: en totalt opslugende sammensmeltning af oplevelse og viden om litteratur, kunst, historie, som fører sin læser de 3000 kilometer ned ad Donau, fra udspringet i Schwarzwald til deltaet i Sortehavet. Pressen skriver: »Stemningen er næsten magisk, og det er næsten som at være der selv. Man får lyst til at følge i hans fodspor og foretage samme rejse« – Charlotte Jakobsen, Lektør »En bog der bærer Klogskabens duft […] Ny udgivelse af Donau viser tydeligt, hvorfor Claudio Magris så ofte sættes i forbindelse med Nobel-prisen. […] Det er jo genialt!« – Arne Mariager, Vejle Amts Folkeblad

Magris recreates the journey through the cultural landscape that crosses the 3,000 kilometers of river. Like the Danube, European culture crosses national, human, and psychological boundaries. The trip would be the way to save those borders as saved by the river, but remains above disaster and destruction.

In this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, Christianity and Islam. In each town he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments, from Ovid and Marcus Aurelius to Kafka and Canetti, in "a fascinating blend of anecdote and history" (San Francisco Examiner).

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 journeys

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

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.

In his acclaimed work Danube, Claudio Magris painted a vast canvas stretching from the source of the river to the Black Sea. From the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste cafe, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, picaresque, nostalgic - from life's minor characters.

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, "e;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 thread."e;Claudio Magris, one of Europe's leading authors and cultural philosophers, offers as narrator of Blindly a madman. Yes, but a pazzo lucido, a lucid madman, a single narrative voice populated by various characters. He is Jorgen Jorgenson, the nineteenth-century adventurer who became king of Iceland but was condemned to forced labor in the Antipodes. He is also Comrade Cippico, a militant anti-communist, imprisoned for years in Tito's gulag on the island Goli Otok. And he is the many partisans, prisoners, sailors, and stowaways who have encountered the perils of travel, war, and adventure. In a shifting choral monologue—part confession, part psychiatric session—a man remembers (invents, falsifies, hides, screams out) his life, a voyage into the nether regions of history, and in particular the twentieth century.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn 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.