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Die rote Fahne und das goldene Vlies, Symbole des Aufbruchs, enden als zerrissene, blutige Fetzen im Dreck der Geschichte. Ist die Hoffnung auf Frieden und ein besseres Leben nur ein frommer Wunsch? Ein Traum, der unweigerlich mit Verrat und Brudermord endet, oder in den Todeslagern von Port Arthur, Leggi tutto

When a novelist is a historian and a historian is a novelis, the process of writing a novel about a historical event is in most cases too challenging for the writer to accomplish the feat with the heightened inspiration that makes for a great novel. Magris overcame this problem by not writing the st Leggi tutto

This is not an easy book to read and attempting to explain what it is about may be an even greater challenge. It is an elaborate puzzle written in snippets of stream of consciousness by a man who seems to be talking to his psychiatrist. The man appears to be a man called Cippico who was a victim of

Marvellous writing — each chapter can be read as a prose poem in a long cycle rather than as a chapter in a novel — but what was the book's point? I found myself asking the question after the first 10 or so pages and was still asking it at the end. Magris apparently wanted to write about a post-WWII Leggi tutto

Non mi è piaciuto. Troppi cambi repentini di date, luoghi e non si capisce bene chi sia il protagonista. Ogni volta è un personaggio diverso. Nella seconda parte del romanzo forse si capisce meglio il senso della trama. Al protagonista gli vengono forniti romanzi, biografie e quant'altro ed ogni fol Leggi tutto

Novel·la difícil de llegir i de classificar, sembla que va febg tombs entre històries i personatges que no acaben de reeixir.