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Dos hombres, una mujer y la huella imborrable del tiempo. La tercera obra en la que Márai aborda estos elementos universales culmina asimismo con un conmovedor duelo verbal y psicológico, de múltiples connotaciones. Y aunque en esta ocasión Márai hayaescogido un personaje histórico como Giacomo Casanova, el desarrollo de la narración deja bien claro que, más allá de su dimensión real, el famoso gentilhombre veneciano representa el arquetipo del aventurero intrépido, amoral y sin escrúpulos, unsímbolo del hombre que, en su afán por encontrar la felicidad, destruye los medios para alcanzarla.Fugitivo de la justicia, Casanova se refugia en Bolzano, ciudad donde reside la única mujer que ha amado en toda su vida. Pese a los anos transcurridos desde que perdió a Francesca en un duelo con el conde de Parma, el gran seductor nunca ha podidodesprenderse del anhelo de poseer a la otrora bellísima joven. Ahora, el destino pone en sus manos la gran ocasión de saciar su deseo insatisfecho: el conde, viejo, cansado y temeroso de perder a su mujer, que sigue enamorada de Casanova, le ofrecedinero y libertad a cambio de decepcionar a Francesca, para lo cual el cínico y superficial mujeriego deberá, en el transcurso de unas horas, realizar la actuación más difícil de su largo historial donjuanesco.

George Szirtes is a leading figure in contemporary poetry in England and in Hungary, the country of his birth. His poems explore - in a wide variety of complex, skilfully handled forms - his origins, his life, and his critical engagements with works byother poets and artists. They offer

Una novela sobre la nostalgia de la infancia y el destino que corren las relaciones que nacen en la infancia. Calle Katalin narra la historia de tres familias que viven en la misma calle de Budapest.Érase una vez la calle Katalin, con sus casas con vistas al Danubio y su jardín comunitario

It is nasty, dirty weather outside there on the puszta

Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944), whose work beautifully combines colloquial modernism with Virgilian classicism, is best known internationally as one of the great poets of the Holocaust: his final, harrowing poems were recovered from a notebook found on hisbody upon exhumation from a mass grave in 1946. But while he is certainly one of the key literary chroniclers of the Holocaust, he is also much more than that. All That Still Matters at All spans his entire output, from his carefree early love lyrics tothe increasingly urgent poems written as the clouds of fascism and war descended upon Europe to the poems composed during forced labor and the death march that finally took his life. All of his work, however, was inspired by his wife, muse and literaryexecutor, Fanni Gyarmati Radnóti, who enthusiastically endorsed these new translations by Ridland and Czipott prior to her death in 2014 at the age of 101.

This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak. The battle of Budapest in the bleak winter of 1944-45 was one of the longest and bloodiest city sieges of World War II. From the appearance of the first Soviet tanks on the outskirts of thecapital to the capture of Buda Castle, 102 days elapsed. In terms of human trauma, it comes second only to Stalingrad, comparisons to which were even being made by soldiers, both German and Soviet, fighting at the time. This definitive history coverstheir experiences, and those of the 800,000 non-combatants around whom the battle raged.

Tranquility is a living seismograph of the internal quakes and ruptures of a mother and son trapped within an Oedipal nightmare amidst the suffocating totalitarian embrace of Communist Hungary. Andor Weér, a thirty-six-year-old writer, lives in a crampedapartment with his shut-in mother, Rebeka, who was once among the most celebrated stage actresses in Budapest. Unable to withstand her maniacal tyranny but afraid to leave her alone, their bitter interdependence spirals into a Sartrian hell of hatred,lies, and appeasement. Then Andor meets the beautiful and nurturing Eszter, a woman who seems to have no past, and they fall wildly in love at first sight. With a fulfilling life seemingly within reach for the first time, Andor decides that he is readyto bring Eszter home to meet Mother. Though Bartis's characters are unrepentantly neurotic and dressed in the blackest humor, his empathy for them is profound. A political farce of the highest ironic order, concluding that freedom is a conditionunsuitable for humans, Tranquility is ultimately, at its splanchnic core, a complex psychodrama turned inside out, revealing with visceral splendor the grotesque notion that there's nothing funnier than unhappiness.

Situé en 1949 a Naples, ou Marai passa quelques années avant d'émigrer aux Etats-Unis, ce roman, largement autobiographique, brosse un tableau plein de vie et d'humour du petit peuple du Pausilippe. Comme égaré dans ce quartier haut en couleurs, deuxombres : un couple d'étrangers discrets, jamais nommés autrement que ® l'homme ¯ et ® la femme ¯. Viennent-ils d'Amérique, d'Angleterre, de Pologne, nul ne sait. Un jour, l'étranger est retrouvé mort au pied d'une falaise.A travers l'enquete du vice-questeur et les récits de ceux qui c“toyaient le disparu (sa femme, un franciscain, un agent de police), se dégage un portrait complexe et paradoxal de ce réfugié au statut instable et fragile, qui jouait, sans le vouloir, ler“le d'un messie dans cette ville ou, chaque année, le sang de San Gennaro (Saint Janvier) se liquéfie miraculeusement.Récit de l'exil et du déracinement, ce roman désenchanté confirme l'immense et douloureux talent de l'auteur des Braises.

'Baron Wenkcheim's Homecoming is a fitting capstone to Krasznahorkai's tetralogy, one of the supreme achievements of contemporary literature. Now seems as good a time as any to name him among our greatest living novelists.' Paris ReviewHailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is the culmination of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's remarkable and singular career.Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-schoolsweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is broughtdown on the unsuspecting residents of the town.'I've said a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. Now, with this novel, I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book - Satantango, Melancholy, War & War, and Baron. This is my one book.' LaszloKrasnahorkai

Barcode, Krisztina Toth's first substantial work in prose after four volumes of remarkable verse, consists of fifteen beautifully written and highly sensual short stories. Each story, apart from one, is told with poetic intensity and intimacy from ayoung, unnamed female narrator's point of view. Whether about childhood acquaintances, school camps and trips, or love and deceit in love, they are all are set against the backdrop of Hungary's socialist era in its declining years. What sets this bookapart, however, is another level in the work as a whole: the stories are carefully strung, like jewels in a necklace, along metaphorical 'lines', as in the title of the collection and the subtitle of the pieces, which nearly all include the word for'line, bar'. The losses, disappointments, and tragedies great and small recounted here offer nuanced 'mirrorings' of the female soul and linger long in the memory.

This is the strange name that Danny gave to the cigar-smoking man in the hat and pince-nez whose photo he found...