Danube

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn 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.

Product details

• Authors: Claudio Magris, Magris Claudio
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781784871314
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-131-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, TRAVEL / Europe / Eastern, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Central Europe, Southeast Europe, HISTORY / Russia / General