Name: A Different sea (Vintage Classics)
SKU: 49299691
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Author: Claudio Magris
ISBN: 9781784871321

portada A Different sea (Vintage Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Claudio Magris

Publisher

Random House Uk

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

104

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784871321

Edition No.

Synopsis "A Different sea (Vintage Classics) "

Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the abundantly diverse Austro-Hungarian city of Gorizia to spend several years living on the Patagonian pampas, alone with his ancient Greek texts, his flocks and every now and then a woman. He has been taught by his closest friend, Carlo, a philosopher/poet who commits suicide in his early twenties, to search for an authentic life, free of social falsehoods. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroys every chance he has of a normal existence; even after his return to a life of isolation by the Istrian seashore, his attempts at human intercourse, are thwarted. In recounting the life of Enrico, Magris paints a remarkably shrewd picture of a whole world in ferment, that of the decaying Austro-Hungarian empire, shaken to its foundations by the Great War, and emerging from the German occupation and the Communist revolution ripe for disintegration and forever seeking, as does Enrico, for a reason to go on living.

Claudio Magris

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Claudio Magris (Trieste, 1939), prestigiosísimo germanista, ensayista y traductor de Ibsen, Kleist y Schnitzler, entre otros, es una de las figuras mayores de la literatura italiana contemporánea. En Anagrama se han publicado sus obras narrativas Conjeturas sobre un sable, El Danubio (Premio Internacional Antico Fattore y Premio Bagutta), Otro mar (Premio Europeo Agrigento, Premio Palazzo al Bosco y Premio Pannunzio), Microcosmos (Premio Strega), A ciegas (Premio Tomasi di Lampedusa), Así que Usted comprenderá, No ha lugar a proceder, Cruz del Sur, el libro de textos breves Instantáneas, la pieza teatral La exposición y los ensayos recogidos en Utopía y desencanto, El infinito viajar, La historia no ha terminado, Alfabetos, La literatura es mi venganza (coescrito con Mario Vargas Llosa) y El secreto y no.

Claudio Magris ha recibido numerosos premios, entre los cuales están el Premio Erasmus en 2001, el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 2004, el Premio de la Paz de los Libreros Alemanes en 2009 y el Premio de la FIL de Guadalajara en 2014.

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