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Kornel Esti
Deszö Kosztolányi
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Description for Kornel Esti
Paperback. Translator(s): Adams, Bernard. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FJ; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later.
Part Gogol, part Chekhov, and all brilliance, Kosztolányi in his final book serves up his most magical, radical, and intoxicating work. Here is a novel which inquires: What if your id (loyally keeping your name) decides to strike out on its own, cuts a disreputable swath through the world, and then sends home to you all its unpaid bills ... Read more
Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later.
Part Gogol, part Chekhov, and all brilliance, Kosztolányi in his final book serves up his most magical, radical, and intoxicating work. Here is a novel which inquires: What if your id (loyally keeping your name) decides to strike out on its own, cuts a disreputable swath through the world, and then sends home to you all its unpaid bills ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811218436
SKU
V9780811218436
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About Deszö Kosztolányi
Novelist, poet, and journalist, Deszö Kosztolányi (1885-1936) is widely regarded as one of the great Hungarian writers. Bernard Adams won a PEN Translation Fund Award for his translation of The Adventures of Kornél Esti.
Reviews for Kornel Esti
"Each of these stories displays a mastery of texture, nuance, and pacing that is absolutely first rate."
Christopher Byrd - The Daily Beast "Kosztolányi was a ringleader in the 20th-century flowering of Hungarian literature, a poet who reformed the language, and a fiction writer of world class."
The Guardian "One of the most important and glittering writers of ... Read more
Christopher Byrd - The Daily Beast "Kosztolányi was a ringleader in the 20th-century flowering of Hungarian literature, a poet who reformed the language, and a fiction writer of world class."
The Guardian "One of the most important and glittering writers of ... Read more