In this now-classic study, Praz describes the whole of Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility. This wide spread mood in literature had a major effect on 19th-century poets and painters, and the affinities between them and their 20th-centurycounterparts makes this account of the Romantic-Decadents an indispensible guide to the study of modern literature.
Ce livre raconte une bataille qui a changé l'histoire du monde, mais qui n'est pas aussi célèbre que Waterloo ou Stalingrad ; beaucoup de gens n'en ont même jamais entendu parler. Cette bataille, c'est celle d'Andrinople, qui eut lieu le 9 août 378 dans la province romaine de Thrace, aujourd'hui la partie européenne de la Turquie. Ce jour-là, les Romains subirent face aux barbares la défaite la plus désastreuse depuis celle qu'Hannibal leur avait infligée en l'an 216 avant Jésus-Christ. Un siècle avant sa chute officielle, c'est à Andrinople que fut scellé le sort de la superpuissance mondiale qu'était alors Rome. Mais tout commence en 376, alors que des milliers de réfugiés Goths affluent aux frontières de l'Empire, au grand désarroi des autorités romaines...
A triumphant celebration of a river that has forever been at the center of the great movements of history.In this fascinating journey through the history and culture of the Danube, Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopedic and curiosity limitless, invites the reader to accompany him along the whole course of the river, from the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. In each town he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments: Kafka and Freud; Wittgenstein and Marcus Aurelius; Lukcs, Heidegger, and Cline; Canetti and Ovid. He also encounters a host of more obscure but no less intriguing personalities--philosophers, novelists, diplomats, and patriots--on an odyssey that brings middle-European culture to life in its most picturesque and evocative forms.Danube is among the first of a new list of nonfiction paperbacks published as Harvill Press Editions.