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Dewey Decimal Number: 910 EAN: 9781860468230 ISBN: 1860468233 Label: Random House UK Manufacturer: Random House UK Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: 2001-04 Publisher: Random House UK Studio: Random House UK Editorial Review: Product Description: Danube is a triumphant celebration of a river that has forever been at the center of the great movements of history. In this fascinating journey through the history and culture of the Danube, Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopedic and his curiosity limitless, invites the reader to accompany him along the whole course of the river, from the Bavarian hills through Austria-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - OMEGA OF SOLACEThe best book of an age is a brave new form of imagination and wisdom. "Danube" is a post-generic transcendence of art and vision to an unknown zodiac of meaning. When a book is a leap of creativity, it is an honor to be a reader. A majestic book of 401 pages and 170 chapters, "Danube" follows a mighty river(of 2,888km) from beginning to end as a journey of knowledge--of time, space, history and fate--to find not only where the river ends but also where time, space, history ... Read More Rating: - Learned, Perceptive, Thoughtful, and Beautifully TranslatedClaudi Magris's work is simply the best travelogue that I have ever read: it is a work of imagination, erudition, and deeply-felt culture, and has been beautifully translated: I have never encountered English prose that better captures the cadence and rhythm of Italian! Rating: - A MigrationThis book records one man's journey, but because this man is so many, it's more like the record of a migration. Rating: - A magnificent panorama of a very complex historyThroughout history, the Danube has meant many different things to many different people: a highway, a playground, a barrier against the Turks, a symbol of eternal life or of life's melancholy. Magris structures this book as a travelogue, following the Danube from its source(s) in Germany through its debouchment into the Black Sea in Rumania. But in every place he visits, from a humble bench on the riverbank to the major cities of Vienna and Bucharest, he paints a vivid picture not only of the place ... Read More Rating: - A river of memoryIn this fascinating journey, Magris takes us from the very -and much disputed- sources of the Danube in the Black Forest, in Southern Germany, to the mouth of the river in the Black Sea, in Romanian territory. Along the way, Magris recreates the legends, stories and historical moments of every village and city he visits. The Danube area is, of course, full of history, since most peoples who ever set foot in Europe seem to have crossed it one way or another. Princes, wars, writers, lovers, many interesting ... Read More |
