Blameless The Margellos World Republic of Letters Claudio Magris s 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 o

Claudio Magris s 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 museum s curator, a descendant of victims of Jewish exile and of black slaveryClaudio Magris s 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 museum s 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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About " Claudio Magris Anne Milano Appel "
Claudio Magris Anne Milano Appel
Claudio Magris was born in Trieste in the year 1939 He graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978 His most well knwon book is Danubio 1986 , which is a magnum opus In this book Magris tracks the course of the Danube from its sources to the sea The whole trip evolves into a colorful, rich canvas of the multicultural European history.He s translated the works of Ibsen, Kleist and Schnitzler, among others, and he published also essays about Robert Musil, Jorge Luis Borges, Hermann Hesse and many others.