by Claudio Magris · Garzanti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811662587
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«Microcosmi» is the novel by Claudio Magris, published by Garzanti in paperback (275 pages, in Italian).
The work traverses small, precise places, from lagoon and mountain landscapes to cafés and islands, and gives voice to men, animals and everyday objects. Among its motifs are the relationship between landscape and time, the uncertainty of identity, love and the constant crossing of borders, with echoes of Medea and the Argonauts.
The work was originally published in 1997 and belongs to the Narratori moderni collection. It won the Strega Prize in 1997 and the Leipzig Book Award in 2001.
For readers of contemporary Italian fiction, with a taste for reflections on landscape, identity and borders in the vein of Claudio Magris.
Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996.
