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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; The dove and the Two- Headed Eagle; The Inn keeper and His War; Unreliable Death; Thirteen thousand eight hundred seventy nine 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 |
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Pissing Against the Wind and Contra LegemThe 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 |
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The Rocky Beach of the FamousThe sin of Acrimony; Untranslatable; Selfie; Translator's Notes |
| 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." |
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Italian literature -- 20th century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian. |
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays. |
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Italian literature. |
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1900-1999 |
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Appel, Anne Milano, translator.
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| Added Title |
Istantanee. English
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Print version: Magris, Claudio. Istantanee. English. Snapshots. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019 0300218494 9780300218497 (OCoLC)1046477726 |
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9780300245226 (electronic bk.) |
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030024522X (electronic bk.) |
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9780300218497 |
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0300218494 |
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