Esther's Inheritance
by:
Sándor Márai (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400096664 (1400096669)
Publish date: October 6th 2009
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Roman,
Hungary,
Hungarian Literature
Selten klappte ich ein Buch mit derartigem verblüfften heiligen Zorn zu wie dieses, denn alle inneren Antriebe der Hauptprotagonistin zu ihren völlig wahnwitzigen selbstzerstörerischen Handlungen sind so unglaubwürdig und wurden mir einfach vom Autor überhaupt nicht erklärt. Da hilft es auch nichts,...
bookshelves: hungary, winter-20112012, translation, published-1939, paper-read, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Gifted by Sympatico Read from December 23, 2011 to January 05, 2012 ** spoiler alert ** Translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes.Opening - I don't ...
Another brilliant Márai example for the economy of words. Meant, I think, for persons of age, older people who have already had a life and either made something of it or left it unrequited. I am not convinced a younger person would derive any great pleasure from reading this book or be enlightened...
L'attesa e "quel senso di allarme continuo era stato l'unico vero significato della mia vita" .C’è una sola cosa tiepida e cristallina, ed è la domenica di settembre in cui Lajos, seguito dal gruppo che si porta appresso, torna a far visita a Eszter, in quella casa che lui ha riempito di menzogne. L...
This is a short, and beautifully written book. It begins with Esther three years after the story begins, who has decided to write down what happened when Lajos returned and stole everything.It was first published in its original Hungarian in 1939, the year the second world war began. Márai was pro...
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