- Published: 3 January 2017
- ISBN: 9781784871314
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $29.99
Danube
- Published: 3 January 2017
- ISBN: 9781784871314
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $29.99
Impeccable... Magris, a guide of enormous modesty, has not only read everything: he has been everywhere, met everybody
Nicholas Shakespeare, Arts and Books Review
There is so much to praise about this extraordinary book... Irresistably enjoyable
Mark Thompson, Literary Review
Not simply a masterpiece of travel; it is an odyssey... A splendid book, beautifully translated
Independent
A uniquely stimulating and individual portrait of the heart of Europe
Colin Thubron, Sunday Telegraph
This book is full of wonder and delights...Magris writes beautifully; he seems to have read everything. His reading has not made just clever but wise. On almost every page there are passages that make the heart life... Danube is a masterpiece
John Banville
This is the best introduction to the culture of central Europe, its genius and its tragedy...a work of great originality, which builds up to a mosaic of spectacle, incident and reflection from which the personalities of the narrator and the Danubian lands emerge
Daily Telegraph
Erudite and original
New York Review of Books
Magris proves a gracious, erudite, engaging and fair-minded companion on a journey no reader will forget
Irish Times
His forte is a wealth of literary and historical allusions from Austrian, French, Italian and German sources, which makes this book not only a treasure chest but also a profoundly perceptive study of central European history... wonderfully stimulating and constantly surprising
The Times
Like the river itself, Magris carries all along with him. Philosophy, war, natural history and politics are blended together with a mixture of curiosity, stylishness and all-encompassing knowledge
Observer
Italo Calvino described a classic as a book to which one can return and always find something new. Such a book is Magris’s Danube. In another 30 years we will find the same words and yet another book, fresh revelations divining a different world, a river that never ends, forever lighting out for the mythical territory of freedom.
Richard Flanagan, Guardian