Screen LibraryJourneying = L'infinito viaggiare /
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys.
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, Connecticut : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Italian |
| Series: |
A Margellos world republic of letters book
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| Summary: |
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys. A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the span of several decades. He has traveled through these years with many beloved companions, to whom he dedicates the book, and sought the kind of journey "that occurs when you abandon yourself to [the gentle current of time] and to whatever life brings." Taken together Magris's essays share a clearly identified theme. They represent the motif of the journey in all its aspects--literary, metaphysical, spiritual, mythical, philosophical, historical--as well as the author's comprehensive understanding of the subject or, one might say, of his own way of being in the world. Traveling from Spain to Germany to Poland, Norway, Vietnam, Iran, and Australia, he records particular moments and places through a highly personal lens. A writer's writer and a reader's traveler, Magris proves that wandering is equal part wondering. |
| Item Description: | Translation of: L'infinito viaggiare. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 274 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274). |
| ISBN: |
9780300218510 0300218516 |
| Index Number: | PQ4873 |
| CLC: |
K919 K835.465.6 |
| Call Number: | K835.465.6/M212 |
| Contents: |
In Don Quixote's footsteps -- Marionettes in Madrid -- The bibliophage -- At the "Mentitoio" -- A father, a son -- Spoon River in Cantabria -- Don Serafin's first flight -- In London, at school -- The fortunate isles -- The Prussian road to peace -- The old Prussia puts on a show -- The wall -- On Lotte's tomb -- In Freiburg the Day of German Unity is remote -- The dying forest -- Ludwig's castles in the air -- Among the Sorbs of Lusatia -- The anonymous Viennese -- Schoenberg's table -- The rabbi's dance -- Musical automatons in Zagreb -- Istrian spring -- Cici and Ciribiri -- In Bisiacaria -- A fateful hyphen -- On the Charles Bridge -- The country without a name -- The tragedy and the nightmare -- Poland turns the page -- On Raskolnikov's Landing -- The birch whistle -- A hippopotamus in Lund -- The woodland cemetery -- The fjord -- Parish of the north -- Water and desert -- Is China near? -- The borders of Vietnam -- The great south. |