The Fawn
Autor Magda Szabó Traducere de Len Rixen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2023
"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times
"Magda Szabó's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles" Economist
Eszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous, quick-witted but callous. Yet even flushed with the success of adulthood, Eszter craves acceptance of herself as she really is and of the person she has been.
The only child of an impoverished aristocrat and a harried music teacher failing to make ends meet, Eszter grew up poor and painfully aware of it in a provincial Hungarian town.
The feelings of resentment and envy acquired during her fraught childhood have hardened into an obsessional hatred for one person, the beautiful, saintly and pampered Angéla, Eszter's former classmate and the wife of the man who becomes her lover.
Set against newly communist 1950s Hungary, The Fawn embraces the lies and falsehoods people were obliged to live with in those nightmarish times, and displays Szabó's uncanny ability to convey how the past can haunt and consume us.
Translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781681377377
ISBN-10: 1681377373
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 128 x 199 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
ISBN-10: 1681377373
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 128 x 199 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Notă biografică
Magda Szabó (1917-2007) is considered one of Hungary's greatest novelists. Her novels, dramas, essays, and poetry have been published in forty-two countries and in 2003 she was awarded the Prix Femina étranger for The Door. The NYRB Classics edition of The Door was selected as one of the The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2015. NYRB Classics also publishes Szabó's novels Iza's Ballad, Katalin Street, and Abigail. Len Rix is a poet, critic, and former literature professor. In 2006, he was awarded the Oxford-Weidendfeld Translation Prize for his translation of Magda Szabó's The Door.
Recenzii
What distinguishes this novel from being a fairy tale is its psychological complexity
Szabó's prose is a powerful reminder of just how resonant the relationship between language and memory can be
Magda Szabó's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles
One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers
Magda Szabó's work casts an indirect light upon the dimness that exists between our public and private selves, a place wherein our betrayals-both personal and political-flicker uneasily over the walls
Szabó's prose is a powerful reminder of just how resonant the relationship between language and memory can be
Magda Szabó's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles
One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers
Magda Szabó's work casts an indirect light upon the dimness that exists between our public and private selves, a place wherein our betrayals-both personal and political-flicker uneasily over the walls