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Item Details
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MICROCOSMS
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| By: |
Claudio Magris |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860467695 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860467691 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
7 September, 2000 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Description: |
A journey of the imagination, in which Claudio Magris uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. Delving into his Triestine homeland Magris discovers the city's domestic interiors, its cafes, bars, marketplaces and stations, to be the forums in which humanity transacts its business. |
| Synopsis: |
In his acclaimed work Danube, Claudio Magris painted a vast canvas stretching from the source of the river to the Black Sea. Now he focuses on the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy where he was born and where he has lived most intensely. From the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste cafe, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, picaresque, nostalgic - from life's minor characters. Their worlds might be small, but they are far from minimalist: in them flashes the great, the meaningful, the unrepeatable significance of every existence. Microcosms won the Strega Prize in 1997. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Harvill Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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