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Enrico has always lived in the shadow of his gifted friend Carlo, a bond made all the stronger by Carlo's suicide at the age of 23. In portraying Enrico's life, Magris depicts a world in chaos, that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire shaken by the Great War. By the author of "Danube".
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"Claudio Magris can now be numbered among the great Europeans of the late twentieth century, a writer whose books illuminate not just the history, literature and philosophy of the continent but the human condition itself" (Guardian)
"Quietly devastating and...bitterly funny study of the dangers of philosophy...a very human book" (Independent)
"This shrewd and deeply intelligent novelist...deserves to be read again and again" (Daily Telegraph)
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"Quietly devastating and...bitterly funny study of the dangers of philosophy...a very human book" (Independent)
"This shrewd and deeply intelligent novelist...deserves to be read again and again" (Daily Telegraph)
An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the Great War, and a man seeking for an authentic life
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0002712342
- ISBN 13 9780002712347
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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