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.
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Claudio Magris (Trieste, 1939), catedrático de literatura germánica en la Universidad de Trieste, prestigioso germanista, ensayista y traductor de Ibsen, Kleist y Schnitzler, entre otros, es una de las figuras mayores de la literatura italiana contemporánea. Ha sido galardonado con varios premios: El Erasmus Prize y el Leipzig Book Award en 2001, la medalla de oro del Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid en 2003 y el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 2004.