Adult books set in Hungary (4)
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One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" An NYRB Classics Original The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda’s housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda’s household, becoming indispensable to her. And ... continue
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È un rapporto molto conflittuale, fatto di continue rotture e difficili riconciliazioni, a legare la narratrice a Emerenc Szeredàs, la donna che la aiuta nelle faccende domestiche. La padrona di casa, una scrittrice inadatta ad affrontare i problemi della vita quotidiana, fatica a capire il rigido moralismo di Emerenc, ne subisce le spesso indecifrabili decisioni, non sa cosa pensare dell'alone di mistero che ne circonda l'esistenza e soprattutto la casa, con quella porta che nessuno può varcare. In un crescendo di rivelazioni scopre che le scelte spesso bizzarre... continue
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From the author of The Door and Abigail and for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past. In The Door, in Iza’s Ballad, and in Abigail, Magda Szabó describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and protagonist of The Fawn, may well be Szabó’s most fascinating creation. Eszter is an only child. She grows up in a provincial Hungarian town with her father, an eccentric aristocrat and steeply downwar... continue
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Anna la Douce by Dezső Kosztolányi FR
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" Déjà en 1919, à Budapest, on ne trouvait plus de bonnes. Bonnes, frugales, modestes, vertueuses, qui baissent les yeux et dorment à la cuisine. Anna, enfin, entra chez les Vizy, fit des parquets lumineux, des vitres transparentes, des plats moelleux. Et planta son couteau de cuisine par neuf fois dans le corps de ses patrons, une nuit de fête après la vaisselle. Pourquoi ? Anna ne dira rien. Mais l'auteur, à phrases feutrées, se glisse dans le clair-obscur des obsessions bourgeoises, les silences mesquins, les ragots, la pesanteur sociale, l'indifférence. Anna la soumise n'a rien à dire sur ... continue
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