Claudio Magris: Alla cieca

Translation: Kateřina Vinšová, Mladá fronta

Supported by Italian Culture Institute in Prague

The novel is the monologue of an old man, a patient at the psychological hospital in Trieste, whose lament illuminates the horrors of the death camps of a few ideological systems. Cippico - one of the names that he proudly takes on - jumps around in his narration, digressing into stories of other people with whom he identifies. Through it all, the one unifying factor is the ever-present sea.