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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
368
Utgivningsdatum
2017-06-06
Förlag
Yale University Press
Översättare
Anne Milano Appel
Dimensioner
198 x 135 x 33 mm
Vikt
431 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780300218480

Blameless

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From one of Europes most revered authors, a tale of one mans obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanitys darkest atrocities in order to oppose them Its an attractive trait in Magris that he so obviously cant resist a good story. . . . Blameless, wonderfully translated by Anne Milano Appel, succeeds as a prayer for mercy and reason in a world of torturers and whitewashers.Neal Ascherson, New York Review of Books Claudio Magriss searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age and every country. His tale centers on a man whose maniacal devotion to the creation of a Museum of War involves both a horrible secret and the hope of redemption. Luisa Brooks, his museums curator, a descendant of victims of Jewish exile and of black slavery, has a complex dilemma: will the collections she exhibits save humanity from repeating its tragic and violent past? Or might the display of articles of war actually valorize and memorialize evil atrocities? In Blameless Magris affirms his mastery of the novel form, interweaving multiple themes and traveling deftly through history. With a multitude of stories, the author investigates individual sorrow, the societal burden of justice aborted, and the ways in which memory and historical evidence are sabotaged or sometimes salvaged.
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[A] richly enjoyable writer. . . . The prose gallops but demands that you read it slowly and thoughtfully, the authors intelligence being resistant to summary.Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal Its an attractive trait in Magris that he so obviously cant resist a good story. . . . Blameless, wonderfully translated by Anne Milano Appel, succeeds as a prayer for mercy and reason in a world of torturers and whitewashers.Neal Ascherson, New York Review of Books [A] remarkable novel.New Yorker Magris achieves an intense and captivating narrative rhythm through contrast and complementarity. He brings deep, nuanced scrutiny to bear on the inner lives of his characters, and on the larger historical and political portrait of their time and place. . . . We are left with a remarkably comprehensive report on humanity and all of its contradictions and complexities in peace and war. One of our greatest contemporary writers has written a great book for our not-so-blameless age.Norman Manea, Project Syndicate This marvelous, monumental novel is at once an act of recuperation and indictment; despite the books title, Claudio Magriss unnamed protagonist, like Magris himself, knows where the blame lies for the countless crimes of the twentieth century.John Banville, author of The Blue Guitar The American reader is privileged to be reached, finally, by this new masterwork of the great contemporary writer Claudio Magris, one of the most brilliant witnesses and creative chroniclers of our turbulent times. Its a great honor to recommend this new literary message coming from one of our most acclaimed European writers, a trustworthy and seductive artist, a lucid and original observer of the contradictions and conflicts and solitude of the modern man. The book should be a dear and precious partner for all lovers of literature and art, for the acute debate around our common destiny in turbulent times. A great, golden gift for the enviable community of Claudio Magriss admirers!Norman Manea, author of The Hooligans Return Claudio Magris is a writer of many talents: a novelist, an essayist, a man of ideas, and a learned traveler, in the style of the great writers of the eighteenth century. Yet he is absolutely modern and each book he publishes assures us that he is one of the greatest writers of our time.Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature

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Claudio Magris, professor emeritus of modern German literature, University of Trieste, is a recipient of the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the FIL Prize Guadalajara, and the Kafka Prize among scores of other literary awards. His best-selling novel Danube has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Anne Milano Appel, an award-winning translator, recently received the Italian Prose Translation Award.