An ‘Honorary Jewish’ Novelist’s Homage
At 72, Italian novelist and Germanist Claudio Magris has many achievements, including critical writings on Kafka and Joseph Roth. One of his most lastingly admired books is a 1991 novel, “Un altro mare” (Another Sea), of which the French translation was reprinted in September from Folio/Gallimard. An ardently poetic, yet also skillfully calibrated fictional tribute…
