Top 4 Quotes by Claudio Magris

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Claudio Magris

Migration, States, Danube

Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

Claudio Magris

Journey, Flight, Standstill

Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.

Claudio Magris

Art, Should Have, Creating

Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage