Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the abundantly diverse Austro-Hungarian city of Gorizia with its mixed population and culture, to spend several years living on the Patagonian pampas, alone with his ancient Greek texts, his flocks and every now and then a woman. He has been taught by his closest friend, Carlo, a philosopher/poet who commits suicide in his early twenties, to search for an authentic life, free of social falsehoods. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroys every chance he has of a normal existence even after his return to live a life...

Translated from the Italian, Magis delves into the environment of his Triestine homeland and uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. The city's homes, cafes, markets and railway stations are all forums where humanity descends to transact its business, buy and sell, argue and orate, seek vengeance and do all that defines one as human.

Guides the reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way, the author raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vital crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West.

A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys

Tématem románu Pro nedostatek důkazů, jehož autorem je jeden z největších současných italských spisovatelů Claudio Magris a který už vyšel v překladech v mnoha zemích, jsou války všech dob a ve všech koutech světa, války jakoby téměř neodmyslitelné od života.
Krví zbarvují román do ruda, černě barvou pleti v podpalubích otrokářských lodí, temně mořskými hlubinami pohlcujícími poklady i osudy, do šeda dýmem z kremačních pecí jediného vyhlazovacího tábora v Itálii, Risiery di San Sabba u Terstu, do běla vápnem, které po...