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Of Time and the River |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Lee Congdon |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,885 Words, 17,519 Characters |
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DANUBE
A Journey Through the Landscape, History,
and Culture of Central Europe
Claudio Magris
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989
401 pp. $22.95
Trieste looks out over the shimmering waters of the Adriatic Sea. Today it belongs to Italy, but for more than five hundred years it formed a part of the Austrian Empire. In fact, during the Italian revolutions of 1848 the city was so loyal that the emperor rewarded it with the title Citta Fedelissima. Small wonder, then, that it is now a center for the study of the imperial past. Claudio Magris, the author of this lyrical and often profound book, specializes in German literature, especially that of Danubia, at the University of Trieste. He is therefore well positioned to join Milan Kundera (Czech), Gyorgy Konrad (Hungarian), Eugene ...
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...t should only spur us on. At the least, we ought not to deny our historicity. We should therefore prefer the river to the sea, for it eschews the nothingness that, however much pain it spares us, strips us of our humanity. Always different and yet ever the same, the river does not reject this world but instead seeks the eternal within time. It does not flee from, but affirms, human existence.
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