Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black SeaA journey through the history and culture of the Danube, from the Bavarian hills, through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans, to the Black Sea. In each town Magris raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments: Kafka and Freud, Wittgenstein and Marcus Aurelius, and Heidegger and Celine. |
Contents
MAP 10II | 10 |
A Question of Gutters | 13 |
The Universal Danube of Engineer Neweklowsky | 55 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according Amedeo ancient Austrian Balkan Banat battle Bavarian become Bela Crkva Belgrade beneath Breg Brigach Budapest Bulgaria Bulgars café Canetti castle celebrated Céline century church Circassian colour culture Danube Danubian dark death destiny Donaueschingen Emperor Empire epic Europe existence eyes face fact famous feeling flows frontier German give Grandma Anka Grillparzer Hapsburg Hungarian Hungary imperial individual Joseph Roth journey Kafka literary literature living look Lukács Magyar Maria melancholy Mitteleuropa monument museum mystery Nazism Neweklowsky novel Ottoman Panait Istrati Pannonia Passau passion peasants perhaps person play poems poet poetry political princes reality Regensburg river Roman Rumanian says seems Serbian Serbs Sighişoara Slav Slovak social Stifter stone story Sulina Swabian tells things Timişoara tomb town tradition tragedy traveller Turkish Turks universal vanished Vienna Viennese woman woods words writes wrote