Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward.

Autorentext
Nicoletta Pireddu teaches Italian and Comparative Literature at Georgetown University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Claudio Magris's Geography of Domesticity 1. Households of the Self 2. Homely Memories, Promised Homelands 3. European Thresholds and Relocations 4. From Snug Refuges to Ghastly Cells 5. The Essayist and the Tortoise Conclusion