| Between a play and a catalogue, The Exhibition marks a new stage in the work of Claudio Magris. At the heart of this weird and unrestrained fantasy stands a painter, Vito Timmel, who died in 1949. |
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european institute of cultural routes |
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| Daniel Capp |
| 25 March 2003 |
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Informations
Support: book
Media's author : MAGRIS Claudio
Language : French
Editor : Gallimard
Publishing year : 2003
ISBN/ISSN : 2-07-076393-5
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| 11,5 cm x 18,5 cm 92 pages |
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A wandering mind, anarchist and bohemian, his life is ressurected through scraps of food and rags gained by his honest words the voices of nurses, of his artist and drinking friends, the women who he has loved or not known how to love.
All the people, fiery or embryonic, let fuse the powerful colours of a language which oscillated between the trivial and the most ornately rhetorical. Gravity and derision intertwined, like the joy of pain, in a climate which rests between life and death, deluge and carnival.
The Exhibition is a surprising book, quick tempered, a comic tradgedy, a kind of Noah's Ark of middle Europe sailing on a raging sea, or maybe a mad ship, a Medusa's raft, all depending on the interpretation of the reader, or the effect created on the theatre stage...
Claudio Magris was born in Trieste in 1939, The majority of his books are translations into french:
Enquête sur un sabre,
Danube,
Le Mythe et l'Empire,
Une autre mer,
Microcosmes,
Utopie et désenchantement? |
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