Microcosms

Informationen zum Autor Claudio Magris Klappentext CLAUDIO MAGRIS, scholar and critic, was born in Trieste in 1939. After graduating from the University of Turin, he lectured there in German Language and Literature from 1970 to 1978. He holds a chair in Germanic Studies in the University of Trieste, and was for a period a member of the Italian parliament. He is the author of works of literary criticism and plays and has translated works by Isben, Kleist, and Schnitzler. He won international acclaim for his remarkable study of middle Europe, Danube . His novel, A Different Sea is also published by Harvill. Zusammenfassung In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste café, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, picaresque, nostalgic - from life's minor characters.

Product details

• Authors: Claudio Magris, Magris Claudio
• Assisted by: Iain Halliday (Translation), Halliday Iain (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781784871307
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-130-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Italy, Travel and holiday, autobiography; italy; travel book; istria; danube