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Snapshots / Claudio Magris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magris, Claudio, Author.
- Series:
- Margellos world republic of letters book.
- The Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian literature--20th century.
- Italian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A collection of brief, but intimate meditations on life and culture ranging from controversial matters to private moments The internationally acclaimed author Claudio Magris offers a collection of brief "snapshots" reflecting on life and culture from 1999 to 2013 through his very personal lens. Some pieces portray private, intimate moments, while others offer views on public, sometimes controversial matters; the tone is sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, sometimes ironic, but always engaging. The panoramic nature of the vignettes is broad in scope, encompassing a variety of subjects rendered in quick, decisive brushstrokes. It is a little like leafing through a photo album of our times and our society while a learned companion seated beside us offers a perceptive running commentary. Magris's wit-at times pungent, at times self†'deprecating, always keen-is refreshingly affable. A continuing adventure by the author who has reinvented "travel literature."
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- The Dove and the Two-Headed Eagle
- The Innkeeper and His War
- Unreliable Death
- Thirteenthousandeighthundredseventynine Evenings
- At the Castelli Gallery
- Be With or Go With?
- (Open?) Couple at the Conference
- Forget Colors
- Sacred and Profane
- Losing Your Marbles
- A Crowd for No One
- Group Portrait with Sleeping Jurist
- We'll Talk
- The Bankers and the Devil
- Orphaned Embryos
- An Overturned Head of Medusa
- The Scourge of the 800 Number
- Benefits for Polygamists and Taxes on Bachelors
- Let the Little Children Come unto Me
- Pissing Against the Wind and Contra Legem
- The Menu of the Revolution
- On the Rocky Beach
- A New Writer: The Censor
- The Wall Will Last for Years . . .
- Limping Verses from the Hereafter
- The Stray and a Model
- At the Seashore
- The Place Where the Heart Is Silent
- On the Tracks
- The Sacred Hours
- A Rose of the Blessed
- The Devil's Dung
- The Beautiful Summer
- Writing, Entry Prohibited
- Down with the Poor
- The Right Word in the Wrong Mouth
- Sea Lion
- Jens's Gravestone
- Mute Scenes of a Marriage
- Everything's All Right
- At the Window
- Frecciabianca
- Graffiti
- Advertising, a Long, Tedious Sermon
- The Rocky Beach of the Famous
- The Sin of Acrimony
- Untranslatable
- Selfie
- Translator's Notes
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-24522-X
- OCLC:
- 1083671068
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