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Claudio Magris, BLINDLY *SIGNED* 2012 Softcover 1ST/1ST U.S. Edition NEW!
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Signed By
- Claudio Magris
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Title
- Blindly
- Country of Manufacture
- United States
- Original Language
- English
- Age Level
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Modified Item
- No
- Subject
- Literature, Modern
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Year
- 2012
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- Era
- 21st Century
- Personalized
- No
- Cultural Region
- American Literature
- Features
- 1st Edition, ~First Edition, First Printing Softcover., ~Signed on the Full Title Page by Author., ~SIGNED in Person at a Book Signing Event.
- Literary Period/Movement
- Modernism
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780300185362
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300185367
ISBN-13
9780300185362
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117307456
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blindly
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
The Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-945976
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Winner of the 2015 Italian Prose in Translation Prize, sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association., "I have read Claudio Magris's Blindly twice, in French and in English; but the real translation is his revelation of what is in his own words "the indistinct drama of life." Never mind the literary ikon-busting Modernism, Post-Modernism. Not since Joyce's Ulysses has there been great revelation of what the novel can be. Magris achieves this in fully realizing his own statement. The novel "is a voice that expresses not what we have consciously become but what we might have become and what we erupt at times, what we could be and hope and fear we can be." Time-frame of this narration perhaps by a madman to the contemporary Confessor, the psychiatrist, is two centuries held in a contemporary mind adventurously, with ruthless insight and the cut and thrust of wit. Told by different people in different countries and under political edicts the "madman" in the splendid humanity of hubris: "I want to set the world right instead of trying to find myself a safe haven."--Nadine Gordimer, "A subtle, intelligent, and delicate story that, like a work of filigrane, you can read as a novel of adventures. A magnificent book."--Mario Vargas Llosa, " Blindly is an extraordinarily inventive, learned, poetic and entertaining dreambook, ranging over the world and the centuries and returning always to the prison island of Goli Otok It is surely a masterpiece."-John Banville, "I have read Claudio Magris's Blindly twice, in French and in English; but the real translation is his revelation of what is in his own words "the indistinct drama of life." Never mind the literary ikon-busting Modernism, Post-Modernism. Not since Joyce's Ulysses has there been great revelation of what the novel can be. Magris achieves this in fully realizing his own statement. The novel "is a voice that expresses not what we have consciously become but what we might have become and what we erupt at times, what we could be and hope and fear we can be." Time-frame of this narration perhaps by a madman to the contemporary Confessor, the psychiatrist, is two centuries held in a contemporary mind adventurously, with ruthless insight and the cut and thrust of wit. Told by different people in different countries and under political edicts the "madman" in the splendid humanity of hubris: "I want to set the world right instead of trying to find myself a safe haven."-Nadine Gordimer, "The prose, which meanders through the crevasses of a complicated mind, takes off and reads like poetry."- The New Yorker, "A subtle, intelligent, and delicate story that, like a work of filigrane, you can read as a novel of adventures. A magnificent book."-Mario Vargas Llosa, " Blindly is an extraordinarily inventive, learned, poetic and entertaining dreambook, ranging over the world and the centuries and returning always to the prison island of Goli Otok It is surely a masterpiece."--John Banville, "The prose, which meanders through the crevasses of a complicated mind, takes off and reads like poetry."-- The New Yorker, "The prose, which meanders through the crevasses of a complicated mind, takes off and reads like poetry."-- New Yorker " Blindly . . . is devastating and beautiful."-- Kirkus Reviews "[A] fascinating approach, impressively textured. . . . Quite a remarkable work."-- Complete Review Winner of the 2013 Northern California Book Awards for Fiction in Translation Winner of the 2015 Italian Prose in Translation Prize, sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association "A subtle, intelligent, and delicate story that, like a work of filigrane, you can read as a novel of adventures. A magnificent book."--Mario Vargas Llosa " Blindly is an extraordinarily inventive, learned, poetic and entertaining dreambook, ranging over the world and the centuries and returning always to the prison island of Goli Otok. It is surely a masterpiece."--John Banville "I have read Claudio Magris's Blindly twice, in French and in English; but the real translation is his revelation of what is in his own words 'the indistinct drama of life.' Never mind the literary ikon-busting Modernism, Post-Modernism. Not since Joyce's Ulysses has there been great revelation of what the novel can be. Magris achieves this in fully realizing his own statement. The novel 'is a voice that expresses not what we have consciously become but what we might have become and what we erupt at times, what we could be and hope and fear we can be.'"--Nadine Gordimer
Dewey Decimal
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Synopsis
Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in Italy, Magris's innovative novel is now available to English-language readers, Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in Italy, Magris's innovative novel is now available to English-language readers 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., Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in Italy, Magris's innovative novel is now available to English-language readers 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 Jørgen Jørgenson, 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.
LC Classification Number
PQ4873.A3645
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