Danube by Magris, Claudio -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents Dedication Praise About the Author Also by Claudio Magris in English translation Map 1. A Question of Gutters

1. A Plaque 2. Donaueschingen Versus Furtwangen 3. The Report 4. Moralists and Geometricians at the Sources of the Breg 5. Mitteleuropa: Hinternational or All-German? 6. Noteentiendo 7. Homunculus 8. The Railway-Lines of Time 9. Bissula 10. The Source of the Brigach 11. The Sacristans of Messkirch 12. The Guide at Sigmaringen

2. The Universal Danube of Engineer Neweklowsky

1. Believing in Ulm 2. Two Thousand One Hundred and Sixty-Four Pages and Five Kilos Nine Hundred Grammes of Upper Danube 3. The Engineer Caught Between Conviction and Rhetoric 4. The Little Black Girl of the Danube 5. The German Idyll 6. The Capture of Ulm 7. With Their Bare Hands Against the Third Reich 8. A Funeral 9. A Pound of Bread 10. At the Pig Market 11. The Archivist of Affronts 12. Grillparzer and Napoleon 13. Deambulatory Therapy 14. From Lauingen to Dillingen 15. The Kitsch of Evil 16. An Empty Tomb 17. Marieluise Fleisser of Ingolstadt 18. The Roman Limes 19. A Walhalla and A Rose 20. Regensburg 21. In the Chamber of the Reich 22. The Six Points of Nothing 23. The Palm Sunday Ass 24. The Great Wheel 25. Eichmann in the Monastery 26. The Double Chins of Vilshofen 27. In the City of Passau 28. Kriemhild and Gudhrun, or the Two Families 29. The “Blue Inn” Waltz

3. In the Wachau

1. An Obituary in Linz 2. Suleika 3. A.E.I.O.U. 4. By Cut and Thrust 5. A Puff of Smoke 6. Mauthausen 7. A Drop of Oblivion 8. Ducks at Grein 9. A Cake for the Archduke 10. Kyselak 11. The Vineta of the Danube 12. Twenty Past Ten 13. Two-Headed Eagle and White-Tailed Eagle 14. Kierling, Hauptstrasse 187

4. Café Central

1. The Poet’s Dummy 2. Wittgenstein’s House 3. St Stephen 4. The Little Baroness Who Did Not Like Wagner 5. The Strudlhof Steps 6. Dorotheum 7. The Lies of the Poets 8. The Turks Before Vienna 9. Bloodstains 10. Among the Other Viennese 11. A Worthwhile Job 12. Gentzgasse, 7 13. Lukács in Vienna 14. I Was Only Asking 15. The Usual, Sir? 16. Josephinum 17. A Cabaret of Reality 18. Rembrandtstrasse, 35 19. On the Brink of Reality 20. Wiener Gruppe and Striptease 21. Karl-Marx-Hof 22. Uncle Otto 23. At the Crime Museum 24. “Happily Lived and Lightly Died” 25. Berggasse, 19 26. Space Odyssey 27. The Look Behind 28. Words, Words, Words 29. Eckhartsau 30. Carnuntum 31. A Minority That Wants to be Assimilated 32. When Haydn’s Around, Nothing can Go Wrong 33. More Gloomy and More Glorious

5. Castles and Huts

1. At the Red Prawn 2. Where are Our Castles? 3. That Obscure Object of Desire 4. To Each his Hour 5. A Working-Class Danubian Sunday 6. Roadside Cemeteries 7. On the Tatras 8. Old Books, Life and Law

6. Pannonia

1. At the Gates of Asia? 2. The King in Disguise 3. Kocsis 4. Tank-Tracks in the Snow 5. In the Mud of Pannonia 6. Sadly Magyar 7. An Imperial Bust Under the Stairs 8. The Innkeepers of Vác 9. Szentendre 10. An Ice-Cream in Budapest 11. The Tomb Among the Roses 12. The Epic, the Novel, and Women 13. Mitteleuropa and Antipolitics 14. Two Telegrams 15. Curvaceous Enlightenment 16. The Library on the Danube 17. A Bit of Stalin 18. Kalocsa 19. Epilogue at Baja 20. The Wine of Pécs 21. The Fake Czar 22. A Violin at Mohács

7. Grandma Anka

1. Thinking “With the Mind of Several Peoples” 2. A Green Horse 3. The Wise Councillor Tipoweiler 4. A Polyglot Parrot 5. Beneath the Bust of Lenau 6. Evergreen Vitality 7. Timişoara 8. A German Destiny 9. The Tomb of Octavián 10. An Ambiguous Jove 11. The City in the East 12. Transylvanismus 13. On the Clock-Tower 14. On the Brink of Silence 15. Hypothesis About a Suicide 16. Subotica, or the Poetry of Falsehood 17. Novi Sad and Neighbourhood 18. Frontiersmen 19. A Stalinist Werther 20. A Saga of Belgrade 21. At the Iron Gates

8. Doubtful Cartography

1. “They Scorn the Turks” 2. Autobiography of a Haiduk 3. Manuscripts in the Danube 4. Tartars and Circassians 5. Agent Rojesko 6. The Wave and the Ocean 7. The Macedonian Question 8. Green Bulgaria 9. The Tales of Čerkazki 10. The World Created by Satanail 11. The Bible of the Goths 12. Ruse 13. A Stentorian Museum 14. Graffiti at Ivanovo 15. The Stork and the Lamp-Post 16. The House of Elias Canetti

9. Matoas

1. On the Road to Evil 2. Gods and Pancakes 3. A Displaced Conference 4. The Marshal’s Window 5. Mahalá and Avant-Garde 6. The Slot-Machine of Poetry 7. At the Village Museum 8. Hiroshima 9. The Triumph of Trajan 10. Black Sea 11. The Thracian Horseman 12. The Dead City 13. At the Frontier 14. At the Delta 15. “Into the Great Sea”