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I'm going to be very honest: Magris' over-the-top erudition, his impossible-to-follow sentences, the constant detours, the pedantic tone,�, it eventually became a bit too much for me. I didn’t finish it, so I won't rate it. Agreed, Magris has interesting things to say (about the fiction of the concept of 'Mittel-Europa', for instance), but he drowns it in a bombardment of theses about all possible facets of European culture. His postmodernist approach, with a constant mixing of genres and ever diverging musings, gives a very outdated impression. And the fact that it was originally published in 1986, so before the fall of the Iron Curtain, doesn't help either. Perhaps my bad?