Claudio Magris ? Claudio Magris was born in Trieste (Italy) in 1939. He left his native Trieste at the age of eighteen to study at the University of Turin, where he specialised in Germanic Literature. He is now professor of this subject at the University of Trieste. He has published important studies on the relationship between Italian and Germanic cultures and on the importance of central Europe’s cultural milieu, i.e. on German predominance over central European culture. radicalreference.info
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