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Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea

✍ Scribed by Claudio Magris

Publisher: Random House;Vintage Classic
Year: 2011;2016
Tongue: English
Weight: 336 KB
Edition: [New edition]. /
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1446433803

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✦ Synopsis

In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the river's source 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 and Marcus Aurelius 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.

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