A Different Sea

Resumen del libro

Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the abundantly diverse Austro-Hungarian city of Gorizia with its mixed population and culture, to spend several years living on the Patagonian pampas, alone with his ancient Greek texts, his flocks and every now and then a woman. He has been taught by his closest friend, Carlo, a philosopher/poet who commits suicide in his early twenties, to search for an authentic life, free of social falsehoods. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroys every chance he has of a normal existence; even after his return to live a life of ever-increasing isolation by the Istrian seashore, his attempts at human intercourse, at meaningful love, are thwarted.

In recounting the life and character of Enrico, ostensibly one of Life's failures, Claudio Magris paints a remarkably shrewd and observant picture of a whole world in ferment, that of the decaying Austro-Hungarian empire, shaken to its foundations by the Great War, and emerging from the German occupation and the Communist revolution ripe for disintegration and forever seeking, as does Enrico, for a reason to go on living.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Claudio Magrisx{0026}lt;/strong (Trieste, 1939), prestigiosísimo germanista, ensayista y traductor de Ibsen, Kleist y Schnitzler, entre otros, es una de las figuras mayores de la literatura italiana contemporánea. En Anagrama se han publicado sus obras narrativas x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Conjeturas sobre un sable, El Danubiox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (Premio Internacional Antico Fattore y Premio Bagutta), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Otro marx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (Premio Europeo Agrigento, Premio Palazzo al Bosco y Premio Pannunzio), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Microcosmosx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (Premio Strega), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em A ciegasx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (Premio Tomasi di Lampedusa), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Así que Usted comprenderáx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em No ha lugar a proceder,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong el libro de textos breves x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Instantáneasx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , la pieza teatral x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La exposiciónx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y los ensayos recogidos en x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Utopía y desencanto, El infinito viajar, La historia no ha terminado, Alfabetos, La literatura es mi venganzax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (coescrito con Mario Vargas Llosa) y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El secreto y nox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong .x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Claudio Magris ha recibido numerosos premios, entre los cuales están el Premio Erasmus en 2001, el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 2004, el Premio de la Paz de los Libreros Alemanes en 2009 y el Premio de la FIL de Guadalajara en 2014.x{0026}lt;/p