Cine este misteriosul narator al cărții "Blindly"? Evident un retras și un fugitiv, dar ce mai putem să deducem despre el? Confuz de evenimentele din propria sa viață, el reflectă: "Când scriu, și chiar acum când mă gândesc la asta, aud o fel de zumzet, cuvinte încurcate pe care abia le înțeleg, muște zumzăind în jurul unei lămpi de masă, pe care trebuie să le alung mereu cu mâna, ca să nu pierd firul."Who is the mysterious narrator of Blindly? Clearly a recluse and a fugitive, but what more of him can we discern? Baffled by the events of his own life, he muses, "When I write, and even now when I think back on it, I hear a kind of buzzing, blathered words that I can barely understand, gnats droning around a table lamp, that I have to continually swat away with my hand, so as not to lose the thread." Claudio Magris, one of Europe's leading authors and cultural philosophers, offers as narrator of Blindly a madman. Yes, but a pazzo lucido, a lucid madman, a single narrative voice populated by various charact
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