Danubio (Italian Edition)

Landscapes, moods, encounters, reflections, and tales of a Sternian traveler who descends with piety and humor along the old river, from its sources to the Black Sea, retracing his own life and the seasons of contemporary culture, its faiths and its restlessness. An itinerary between novel and essay that recounts culture as an existential experience and reconstructs, like a mosaic, through the visited and interrogated places, the civilizations of Central Europe - in all the complex variety of its peoples and cultures - tracing their profile in the signs of great History and in the ephemeral traces of daily life. External journey, therefore, and interior adventure, meticulous erudite documentation that becomes a matter of fiction and fantastic digression for a curious wanderer of places, books, and people who writes a small Danubian Decameron with stories and events, individual and collective destinies caught on the banks of the river and time. The Danube becomes a labyrinthine path in search of the meaning of life and history, on the atlas of old Europe and our present.

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