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Loading... No ha lugar a proceder (original 2015; edition 2016)by Claudio Magris, Pilar González Rodríguez (Translator)
Work InformationBlameless by Claudio Magris (2015)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. a long winding story and in multiple layers turning and returning, inviting the reader to reflect, this book is not an easy read. All corners and aspects of the protagonists during and after a war, the second world war in this case, are talked about and reflected upon. It would have been great if the second story of the book, mingled in between the numbered chapters, would have been more concise. Now it's an intriguing, but also fatiguing read ( ) no reviews | add a review
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From one of Europe's most revered authors, a tale of one man's obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity's darkest atrocities in order to oppose them Claudio Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age and every country. His tale centers on a man whose maniacal devotion to the creation of a Museum of War involves both a horrible secret and the hope of redemption. Luisa Brooks, his museum's curator, a descendant of victims of Jewish exile and of black slavery, has a complex dilemma: will the collections she exhibits save humanity from repeating its tragic and violent past? Or might the display of articles of war actually valorize and memorialize evil atrocities? In Blameless Magris affirms his mastery of the novel form, interweaving multiple themes and traveling deftly through history. With a multitude of stories, the author investigates individual sorrow, the societal burden of justice aborted, and the ways in which memory and historical evidence are sabotaged or sometimes salvaged. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)853.914Literature Italian and related languages Italian fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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