{"product_id":"blindly-claudio-magris-9780300185362","title":"Blindly","description":"\u003cb\u003eHailed as a masterpiece when first published in Italy, Magris's innovative novel is now available to English-language readers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Who is the mysterious narrator of \u003ci\u003eBlindly\u003c\/i\u003e? 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Claudio Magris, one of Europe's leading authors and cultural philosophers, offers as narrator of \u003ci\u003eBlindly\u003c\/i\u003e a madman. Yes, but a \u003ci\u003epazzo lucido\u003c\/i\u003e, a lucid madman, a single narrative voice populated by various characters. He is J rgen J rgenson, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudio Magris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300185367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300185362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.75h x 5.11w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/22\/2012 pg. 81","brand":"Claudio Magris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913600336127,"sku":"9780300185362","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c730c581-f3ec-4381-8a9d-f26cd1c67e89.jpg?v=1680621291","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blindly-claudio-magris-9780300185362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}