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Enrico has always lived in the shadow of his gifted friend Carlo, a bond made all the stronger by Carlo's suicide at the age of 23. In portraying Enrico's life, Magris depicts a world in chaos, that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire shaken by the Great War. By the author of "Danube".
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About the Author:
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 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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Switching the symbolism of water from river, in the critically acclaimed Danube, to sea, in this new work, Claudio Magris successfully navigates the watery depths of society, the currents of history, and the tidal flux of human longing. The early twentieth century, with all its restlessness, uncertainty, and searching, is filtered through Enrico, a young intellectual. Following the teaching of his mentor friend and poet, Carlo, he seeks a life unfettered by social convention and uncompromised by falseness. Leaving his family and friends for the Patagonian pampas, Enrico submerges himself in philosophical and ancient texts, has various sexual encounters, tends sheep, performs bloodletting on sick horses and himself, all as attempts to discover life's purpose, while consciously draining true feeling and destroying connections. Even Carlo's suicide barely disturbs his self-imposed numbness. As he returns to the Istrian seashore, he floats further away from love and living toward isolation and nihilism. He is buoyed by life's tides, powerless. Lyrical, fluid, and mysterious, this book is wavelike in its advance and retreat. Magris has written an unusual story, one that rather than forming, slowly dissolves. The reader truly feels a hollow space open, and the vast sea, still unknown and human, still so much within us, swells forward, tempting us under. Janet St. John
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0002712342
- ISBN 13 9780002712347
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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