Introduction: Claudio Magris – A Portrait of the Writer as a European Citizen

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Notes

¹ For an analysis of transitionality and contingency as agents of mobility and change in Magris’s oeuvre, see Pireddu, Works of Claudio Magris.

² With these two adjectives, “real and improbable,” Magris qualifies the lives of the three peculiar characters in Croce del sud, as in the subtitle, Tre vite vere e improbabili.

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Nicoletta Pireddu

Nicoletta Pireddu is Inaugural Director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, Director of the Global and Comparative Literature Program, and Professor of Italian Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC. Her publications include The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders (2005), and the edited volumes Reframing Literary, Critical, and Cultural Theories (2018) and Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (2022).