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Title: An artistic collection of musings structured only by the geography of the river
Review: The book is a dense collection of thoughts, experiences, reflections and recollections, which begin at the source of the Danube and end at the terminus with the Black Sea. I picked up this book for a trip in the eastern European region, with many stops along the Danube. While the book is packed with a wide array of historical, literary and artistic references, I found the exposure to new ideas refreshing, even if they disrupt the flow of the book at times. The translation from the artistic Italian prose to English seems to create unnecessarily dense wording at times, but the comprehensive collage of imagery made the book worthwhile in the end. To me, I found the style of writing like the flow of the massive Danube: sometimes it slowly swirls reflectively, but it constantly moves onwards...
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