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Wikipedia / Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris (; born 10 April 1939) is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996.

Life

Magris 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.

He is an essayist and columnist for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera and for other European journals and newspapers. His numerous studies have helped to promote an awareness in Italy of Central European culture and of the literature of the Habsburg myth, a concept which he coined in 1963.

Magris is a member of several European academies and served as a senator in the Italian Senate from 1994 to 1996.

His first book on the Habsburg myth in modern Austrian literature rediscovered central European literature. His journalistic writings have been collected in Dietro le parole ("Behind Words", 1978) and Itaca e oltre ("Ithaca and Beyond", 1982). He has written essays on E.T.A. Hoffmann, Henrik Ibsen, Italo Svevo, Robert Musil, Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges. His novels and theatre productions, many translated into several languages, include Illazioni su una sciabola (1984), Danubio (1986), Stadelmann (1988), Un altro mare (1991), and Microcosmi (1997). His travel writing is collected in Journeying (Yale University Press, 2018).

His breakthrough was Danubio (published as Danube in English) (1986), which is a magnum opus. In this book (said by the author to be a "drowned novel"), Magris tracks the course of the Danube from its sources to the sea, tracing the influences of Christendom and Islam on the formation of central Europe. Microcosmi (Microcosms in English) focuses on the Italian-Istrian borderlands.

Decorations and awards

Honorary doctorates

Memberships

Works

  • Lontano da dove: Joseph Roth e la tradizione ebraico-orientale (1971; "Far from Where: Joseph Roth and the Oriental Hebrew Tradition")

  • Itaca e oltre (1982; "Ithaca and Beyond")

  • L’anello di Clarisse: grande stile e nichilismo nella letteratura moderna (1984; "Clarisse’s Ring: Tradition and Nihilism in the Modern Literature")

  • Illazioni su una sciabola (1984; translated as Inferences from a Sabre, )

  • Danubio (1986; translated as Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea, )

  • Stadelmann (1988)

  • Un altro mare (1991; translated as A Different Sea, )

  • Microcosmi (1997; translated as Microcosms, ).

  • Alla cieca (2006; translated as Blindly, )

  • Non luogo a procedere (2015; translated as Blameless, )

  • Tiempo curvo a Krems (2019)

See also

References

Further reading

  • Pireddu, Nicoletta. (2015) The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • ---. (2012) "On the Threshold, Always Homeward Bound: Claudio Magris's European Journey." The Journal of European Studies 42 (4): 333–341.

  • ---. (2022) Guest Editor, Claudio Magris and the Quest for Europe. Special Issue, The European Legacy 27 (7-8), 2022.

  • Wampole, Christy. (2014) "'Cyberia, Syberia...': Clones, Virtual Spaces, and Cyber-Selves in Claudio Magris' Alla cieca." MLN 129(1): 162–179.