Research Catalog

Title

Journeying = L'infinito viaggiare / Claudio Magris ; translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel.

Author

Magris, Claudio

Publication

• [New Haven, Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Appel, Anne Milano

Description

viii, 274 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys.
• A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the span of several decades. He has traveled through these years with many beloved companions, to whom he dedicates the book, and sought the kind of journey "that occurs when you abandon yourself to [the gentle current of time] and to whatever life brings." Taken together Magris's essays share a clearly identified theme. They represent the motif of the journey in all its aspects--literary, metaphysical, spiritual, mythical, philosophical, historical--as well as the author's comprehensive understanding of the subject or, one might say, of his own way of being in the world. Traveling from Spain to Germany to Poland, Norway, Vietnam, Iran, and Australia, he records particular moments and places through a highly personal lens. A writer's writer and a reader's traveler, Magris proves that wandering is equal part wondering.

Series Statement

A Margellos world republic of letters book

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections. English
• Margellos world republic of letters book.

Alternative Title

• Essays.
• Infinito viaggiare

Subject

• Magris, Claudio > Travel
• Voyages and travels
• Authors, Italian > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Travel writing.
• Essays.

Note

• Translation of: L'infinito viaggiare.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274).

Language (note)

• Translated from the Italian.

Contents

In Don Quixote's footsteps -- Marionettes in Madrid -- The bibliophage -- At the "Mentitoio" -- A father, a son -- Spoon River in Cantabria -- Don Serafin's first flight -- In London, at school -- The fortunate isles -- The Prussian road to peace -- The old Prussia puts on a show -- The wall -- On Lotte's tomb -- In Freiburg the Day of German Unity is remote -- The dying forest -- Ludwig's castles in the air -- Among the Sorbs of Lusatia -- The anonymous Viennese -- Schoenberg's table -- The rabbi's dance -- Musical automatons in Zagreb -- Istrian spring -- Cici and Ciribiri -- In Bisiacaria -- A fateful hyphen -- On the Charles Bridge -- The country without a name -- The tragedy and the nightmare -- Poland turns the page -- On Raskolnikov's Landing -- The birch whistle -- A hippopotamus in Lund -- The woodland cemetery -- The fjord -- Parish of the north -- Water and desert -- Is China near? -- The borders of Vietnam -- The great south.

Call Number

JFD 18-1756

ISBN

• 9780300218510
• 0300218516

LCCN

2017952564

OCLC

1002129848

Author

Magris, Claudio, author.

Title

Journeying = L'infinito viaggiare / Claudio Magris ; translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel.

Publisher

[New Haven, Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A Margellos world republic of letters book

Margellos world republic of letters book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274).

Language

Translated from the Italian.

Added Author

Appel, Anne Milano, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-1756