(10 February 2017) The Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana, in collaboration with the Albanian Ministry of Culture and the National Library present the Albanian language version of Claudio Magris’s “Danubio” (Danub, Albas 2016, translated by Alma Hafizi) in the presence of the author. “The appointment” is for February 28 at 11:00 at the National Library of Tirana. Landscapes, moods, encounters, reflections, stories of a sternian traveller who retraces the path of the old river from its source all the way to the Black Sea with humour and piety, while also retracing his own life and the seasons of contemporary culture, his beliefs and anxieties. A route between the novel and essay that talks about culture as an existential experience and rebuilds civilizations of Central Europe like a mosaic rediscovering its profile in the marks left by history and the ephemeral traces of everyday life. (Red)
