Claudio Magris, professor emeritus of modern German literature, University of Trieste, is a recipient of the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the FIL Prize Guadalajara and the Kafka Prize among scores of other literary awards. His best-selling novel Danube has been translated into twenty-eight languages.
‘People think they’re destroying, but it’s hard work, nearly impossible; building is easy, illusory but easy.’
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