Claudio Magris

• On: 08.12.2008
• In: Paris

Italian writer on the Tour de France of European writers

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December 8th 2008

Practical

At the Institut de Sciences Politiques, Paris

Claudio Magris was born in 1939 in Trieste. After studying Germanic literature, he became known to the French public through his brilliant essay on Viennese modernity called The Myth and the Empire (published as Le mythe et l'empire by Fayard). However his reputation was established by his literary excursions on the Danube, in which Magris used the landscape to evoke the great poetical figures filling his personal pantheon.
Professor, speaker, translator of Kleist, Ibsen, Schnitzler and Büchner, Claudio Magris has never ceased to explore the territory where cultures and identities meet, exchange and assert their particularities as shown by Trieste, a frontier identity. This work was published this year in French as Trieste, une identité de frontière by Seuil, in a translation by Jean and Marie-Noëlle Pastureau.

Monday, December 8th:

- 19:00, Institut de Sciences Politiques, Paris
Moderator: Jacques Munier, spokesman for reviews on France Culture radio
27 rue Saint-Guillaume - Paris 7

• Updated: 30.12.2008

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