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Microcosms by Claudio Magris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris.In... -
Journeying by Claudio Magris
Booksplease Price: £30.65A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and... -
Danube Claudio Magris 9781784871314
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on SundayWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this... -
A Different Sea by Claudio Magris
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its... -
No Ha Lugar a Proceder by Claudio Magris 9788433979483
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £23.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433979483Author Claudio MagrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AnagramaPublisher... -
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea by Claudio Magris
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374522452Author Claudio MagrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux... -
European Vistas: History, Ethics and Identity in the Works of Claudio Magris by Remko Smid 9781789976359
RRP: £50.80Booksplease Price: £45.75Claudio Magris is one of Italy's - and Europe's - most renowned thinkers and writers. He is considered an authority on central European literature and culture and is frequently interviewed about his... -
The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders by Nicoletta Pireddu 9781137492623
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.35Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's... -
Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture by Michael Caesar
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81This book lays more emphasis on orality as source, as process or performance, as outcome. It looks at the primacy of the spoken language that seems to be the main common feature to these two... -
Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands: The Challenge of Trieste by Marianna Deganutti 9781032213279
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland located at the intersection between the Latin, Germanic... -
Ethics of Hospitality by Daniel Innerarity
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94The source of hospitality lies in the fundamental ethical experiences that make up the fabric of the social lives of people. Therein lies a primary form of humanity. Whether we are guests or hosts,... -
The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories by Joost Zwagerman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS'There is a lot... -
Translating Travel: Contemporary Italian Travel Writing in English Translation by Loredana Polezzi
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Translating Travel examines the relationship between travel writing and translation, asking what happens when books travel beyond the narrow confines of one genre, one literary system and one culture... -
Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory Sherry Simon 9780415471527
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the... -
Richard Wagner and His World by Thomas S. Grey
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual... -
Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories: Thought on the Edge by Nicoletta Pireddu 9783030079116
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged "death of theory" and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the "finitude" of theoretical projects does not mean "end",... -
A Civil War of Words: The Cultural Impact of the Great War in Catalonia, Spain, Europe and a Glance at Latin America by Francesc Montero 9783034319508
RRP: £73.70Booksplease Price: £65.77The Great War did not only mark the history of the twentieth century: to a large extent, the conflict also affected culture and literature in Europe and the rest of the world. This collection of... -
Theory of Shadows by Paolo Maurensig 9781250310316
Booksplease Price: £13.43On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was found dead in his hotel room in Estoril, Portugal. He was fully dressed and wearing an overcoat, slumped back in a... -
Roads to Berlin Laura Watkinson 9781848662919
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of... -
Devotion: Now a Netflix limited series Marco Missiroli 9781474613361
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, COMING VALENTINE'S DAY 2022 'An absolute scorcher' Evening Standard'The book about infidelity that has shaken up Italy'The Times'Intimate and ultimately moving..... -
Exterminate All The Brutes by Sven Lindqvist 9781847081988
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quarter of a century ago historian Sven Lindqvist set... -
Rivista La Biennale Di Venezia 2/25: Things to Come La Biennale di Venezia 9788836662135
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Things to Come is the title of issue number 2/2025 of the historic Magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia, brought back to life after 53 years of editorial silence. Each issue contains... -
The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society by Scipio Sighele 9781487503185
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.82The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society is the first collection in English of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, and cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele (1868-1913). In... -
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Subtle, skillful, and clear. It's so clear, in fact, that you can see a very long way down, into the heart of a flawed but valiant human being, into the sickness of a nation, into the depths of...