Danube" is a 'diary' from the headwaters of the river to the Black Sea, through important cities or countries, sweeping landscapes, peoples, customs, literature and languages. A route between fiction and essay that tells the life experience and cultu ...
Danube" is a 'diary' from the headwaters of the river to the Black Sea, through important cities or countries, sweeping landscapes, peoples, customs, literature and languages. A route between fiction and essay that tells the life experience and culture as reconstructed mosaic of civilizations of Central Europe by tracing the profile in the signs of the great history and the ephemeral traces of everyday life.
The idea of Mitteleuropa was born in the middle of the nineteenth century to describe a political space and especially economic hegemony by the Germans and Hungarians, who later became the symbol of German nationalists and programs which then becomes a supranational qualcoca of common underlying all the different nationalities and cultures of many different realities. Central Europe 'hinternazionale', which today idealized harmony of different peoples, it was a reality of the Hapsburg Empire in its final season, a tolleranzte coexistence comprensibiilmente mourned after his death, for the comparison with the totalitarian barbarity that succeeded between the two world wars in the space Danube. The art of Habsburg government does not want to impose a rigid unit to different nations, but rather let them survive and live in their heterogeneity. According to Claudio Magris, Danube is the symbol of the border, because the Danube is a river that runs through many borders, is therefore a symbol of the need and the difficulty of crossing borders, not only national, political, social, but also psychological, cultural, religious. Our identity is always fragile and we must accept this fragility, as we change over time. The identity made of mixtures, abduction and elimination not only the fate of the Danube followers, but a general historical condition, the existence of every individual. Magris says that since no people, no Cultra as no individual lack of historical guilt, become mercilessly account of the defects and obscurities of all, in and of themselves, can be a fruitful premise of civil coexistence and tolerance.
Magris says that literature is itself lost a border, a threshold, an area on the edge and teaches us to go beyond the limits, but that it consists in tracing the limits, without which it can not exist nor the power to overcome to reach for something more higher and more human.