It is likely that he also collaborated with the French secret police.

After his return to France, he wrote articles on Eastern Europe, primarily on linguistics and literature. From 1802 to 1810, on the island of Mauritius, he held the post of secretary to the.

He was in the service of France for the longest time. Between 17 he lived permanently in several Western European countries, where he performed military service. Besse was a traveller and geographer of Hungarian origin (1765 – 1841). The article deals with the life and oeuvre of Jan Karol Besse.

At the same time, however, the narrator’s conjectures from the seashore again lead the reader back to the very beginning of Magris’s long-life literary journey “through time and against time.” By evoking the image of the river’s delta and the narrator’s sense of uncertainty when the latter faces the open sea, Magris reaffirms once again the importance of preserving a sense of the beyond through which to discover the complexity and uncertainty of one’s own identity. Here, Magris seems to take a different perspective, since the elderly protagonists have renounced the search for persuasion and tend to withdraw from life. In the short stories of Tempo curvo a Krems, in contrast, the aging characters have somehow come to a standstill after migrating from Central and Eastern Europe to northern Italy. In his two later novels, Microcosms and Blindly, Magris picks up the theme of reflection again as it continues to shape his wanderings through global and familiar places. Following the curved and sinuous path that runs parallel to the Danube’s riverbanks, the traveler-narrator records his reflections on the ways in which the historical and intellectual European figures, as well as the ordinary characters around which the book centers, have dealt with the experience of time. The discussion of Magris’s use of the two notions of time begins with Danube, where he recounts the experiences of the traveler-narrator on the vast itinerary from the river’s source to the Black Sea. Furthermore, it aims to explore the implications of these notions for the ways in which Magris revisits and represents both the familiar and the less familiar places that make up the fabric of his literary journeys. This article focuses on Claudio Magris’s reflections on time by interrogating two time-related notions from which his entire narrative oeuvre develops: the idea of eternal con-temporariness and his reworking of Carlo Michelstaedter’s concept of ‘persuasion’.

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