Research Catalog

Title

Snapshots / Claudio Magris ; translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel.

Author

Magris, Claudio

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Appel, Anne Milano

Description

ix, 140 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

"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'."--From front cover flap.

Series Statement

A Margellos World Republic of Letters book

Uniform Title

• Istantanee. English
• Margellos world republic of letters book.

Alternative Title

Istantanee.

Subjects

• Italian literature > 20th century
• 1900-1999

Language (note)

• Translated to English from the Italian.

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 -- Pissing Against the Wind and Contra Legem -- The 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 -- The Rocky Beach of the Famous -- The sin of Acrimony -- Untranslatable -- Selfie.

Call Number

JFD 19-3790

ISBN

• 9780300218497
• 0300218494

LCCN

2018948421

OCLC

1046477726

Author

Magris, Claudio, author.

Title

Snapshots / Claudio Magris ; translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

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.

Language

Translated to English from the Italian.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Appel, Anne Milano, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3790