Narrating history, inventing history: the making of Blindly

In: Journal of European studies, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 324-332

Abstract

Magris's text addresses the circuitous and lengthy creative process that led to the conceptualization and writing of his latest novel Alla cieca (2005; Blindly, 2010). It offers, at same time, a reflection on the core dialectical binary of the work: the relation between inventing History and creating History and thus on the relationship between History and the contemporary novel. Magris sheds light on his own formal and stylistic approach to his text and on his ethical quest among the ideological utopias and individual tragedies of pre- and post-WWII Europe.