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Title: Microcosms by Claudio Magris, Iain Halliday ISBN: 1860467695 Publisher: Harvill Pr Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting tale of a European border corner
Comment: This is a rather unusual book. Its genre is that of an essay collection, mixed with guide book, biographies and philosophy. The author tells us about his home town Trieste in north-eastern Italy and the surrounding regions: The inland and coast of Friuli (the region between Venice and Trieste), Piemonte in north-western Italy, the Istria peninsula in Slovenia/Croatia and Southern Tirol in northern Italy. All in all, border region where Italian, Slavic and German cultures meet and mix. The author describes places, landscapes, towns and villages in an intense, reflective and beautiful way, presents persons with interesting, moving, comic, poetic and tragic fates, teaches us some history (certainly not dry), tells some anecdotes, studies some literature and philosophises about landscapes, persons, culture and life itself. The tone changes between dark, poetic and humorous. The main theme of the book is how people live their lives in a microcosm where ways of thinking, language, traditions, and arts are influenced by many cultures and peoples, some gone and some still around. It pays homage to cultural diversity and warns against homogenizing and ethnic cleansing, as in the Yugoslavian Civil War, which the author describes as "the most silly of all wars", and which went on while this book was written. Personally I think the book was very interesting, rich, farsighted and with a very important theme. Sometimes I felt that there were too much philosophy, but it is rather simple and an important part of the book. It is a very European book, dealing with Europe's great heritage of both disastrous border disputes and rich cultural exchange across the borders. For Americans living within borders drawn officially drawn on the map with a ruler this book could be useful when it comes to understand the rich and tragic aspects of Europe's diverse ethnic heritage. But I recommend it to everybody who wants to enjoy a cultural journey to an exciting corner of Europe.
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Title: Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea by Claude Magris, Patrick Creagh, Claudio Magris ISBN: 1860466338 Publisher: Harvill Pr Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris, Trefan Morys ISBN: 0306811804 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Life by Italo Svevo, Archibald Colquhoun ISBN: 1901285359 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Truth & Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Arthur Owen Williams ISBN: 0691102767 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn ISBN: 0375413774 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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