Claudio Magris

• Jul-1993
• / General Fiction
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This thorny novella takes a historical episode and wrings from it every drop of irony. Toward the end of WW II, the Nazis promise the Cossacks a homeland in northeast Italy if the Cossacks collaborate; the Cossacks fight Italian partisans and, of cou...

• Dec-1994
• / General Fiction
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An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its abundant population and culture, to spend several years...

• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2012
• / Literary
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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, "When I write, and even now when I think back on it, I hear a kind of buzzing, blathere...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical
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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 Claudio Magris’s searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the ...