Blameless =
Subtitle: Non luogo a procedere
By: Claudio Magris ; translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel
Contributors: Appel, Anne Milano, translator
Series: A Margellos world republic of letters book; Margellos world republic of letters book
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780300218480
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Museums; Military paraphernalia; Collectors and collecting; Fiction
Work titles: Non luogo a procedere
Description: Claudio Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age and every country. His tale centers on a man whose maniacal devotion to the creation of a Museum of War involves both a horrible secret and the hope of redemption. Luisa Brooks, his museum's curator, a descendant of victims of Jewish exile and of black slavery, has a complex dilemma: will the collections she exhibits save humanity from repeating its tragic and violent past? Or might the display of articles of war actually valorize and memorialize evil atrocities? In Blameless Magris affirms his mastery of the novel form, interweaving multiple themes and traveling deftly through history. With a multitude of stories, the author investigates individual sorrow, the societal burden of justice aborted, and the ways in which memory and historical evidence are sabotaged or sometimes salvaged.
Notes: Originally published in Italian as: Non luogo a procedere. Milano : Garzanti, ottobre 2015.