| #1014873 in Books | imusti | 2017-04-01 | 2016-12-27 | Original language:Italian | 8.00 x.80 x5.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 278 pages | Vintage Classics||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| GEOGRAPHY OF FATE|By AV Ashok|A companion to "Danube," "Microcosms" extends Claudio Magris's visionary geography in excursions to places around Trieste: the Adriatic lagoons east of Venice, the Nevoso forest in Slovenia between Trieste and Fiume, the Collina countryside near Turin, the Croatian Apsyrtides archipelago in the Gulf of Quarnero south of Istria and the valley of Pus||
"A haunting series of evocations and recollections . . . the very antithesis of your run-of-the-mill travel book." —Jan Morris
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 café, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories—comic, tragic, picaresque, nostalgic—from life's minor chara...
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