by Claudio Magris · De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023422587
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«Donau: Biografie van een rivier» is the travel essay by Claudio Magris, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback (442 pages, in Dutch).
Claudio Magris travels the Danube and, city by city, weaves together the history, literature and philosophy of Central Europe. The river becomes the thread of a journey in which Ovid, Marcus Aurelius, Kafka or Canetti serve to evoke the ideas and traces of the past that have shaped European identity.
The translation, by Anton Haakman, was published in 2007. The work originally appeared in Italian under the title «Danubio» in 1986.
For readers interested in the cultural and literary history of Central Europe and in travel literature.
Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996.
