Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris (born April 10, 1939, Trieste, Italy) is an Italian writer, scholar, and critic who was one of the leading writers and cultural philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Magris completed his studies at the University of Turin, where he also taught from 1970 to 1978. Thereafter he taught German literature at the University of Trieste. His numerous studies have promoted central European culture and the literature of the “Habsburg myth.”...