Danub

Landscapes, humor, encounters and reflections of a Sternian traveler who wanders with devotion along the old river, from its sources all the way to the Black Sea, while recalling life itself and the seasons of contemporary culture, its known facts and its concerns. An itinerary, a blend of novel and essay, that follows culture as life experience through the countries visited and explored and rebuilds the mosaic of Central European civilizations, with all the diversity of peoples and cultures; it sketches its profile through the traces of great history and the fragmentary traces of everyday life.

The journey, both real and imaginary, the inner adventure, the numerous and detailed archival documents feed the literary thriller and the fantastic digressions of a curious traveler about places, books and people, creating a miniature Danubian Decameron with stories and events, individual and collective fates, left without an owner on the banks of the river and of time. Danub is the tangled road in search of the meaning of life and history, from the atlases of old Europe to our days.