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Blindly

Magris, Claudio. (Author). Appel, Anne Milano. (Added Author).

Summary: "Who is the mysterious narrator of Blindly? Clearly a recluse and a fugitive, but what more of him can we discern? Baffled by the events of his own life, he muses, "When I write, and even now when I think back on it, I hear a kind of buzzing, blathered words that I can barely understand, gnats droning around a table lamp, that I have to continually swat away with my hand, so as not to lose the thread." Claudio Magris, one of Europe's leading authors and cultural philosophers, offers as narrator of Blindly a madman. Yes, but a pazzo lucido, a lucid madman, a single narrative voice populated by various characters. He is Jorgen Jorgenson, the nineteenth-century adventurer who became king of Iceland but was condemned to forced labor in the Antipodes. He is also Comrade Cippico, a communist militant, imprisoned for years in Tito's gulag on the island Goli Otok. And he is the many partisans, prisoners, sailors, and stowaways who have encountered the perils of travel, war, and adventure. In a shifting choral monologue--part confession, part psychiatric session--a man remembers (invents, falsifies, hides, screams out) his life, a voyage into the nether regions of history, and in particular the twentieth century."--Publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 9781283545921
ISBN: 1283545926
ISBN: 9780300185362
ISBN: 0300185367
ISBN: 0300189141
ISBN: 9780300189148
Physical Description: 1 online resource (383 pages)
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Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2012, ©2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published as Alla cieca by Garzanti, 2006.
Formatted Contents Note:	7475 -- 76 -- 77 -- 78 -- 79 -- 80 -- 81 -- 82 -- 83 -- 84 -- 85 -- 86 -- 87 -- 88 -- 89 -- 90 -- 91 -- 92 -- TRANSLATORâ€?S AFTERWORD
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	Translated from the Italian.