The Esterhazys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of the arts, revered, respected, and occasionally feared by their contemporaries, their story is as complex as the history of Hungary itself. Celestial Harmonies is the intricate chronicle of this remarkable family, a saga spanning seven centuries of epic conquest, tragedy, triumph, and near annihilation. Told by Peter Esterhazy, a scion of this populous clan, Celestial Harmonies...
The Esterhazys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, coun...
Winner of the 2004 German Publishers and Booksellers Association Peace Prize Named a New York Times Notable Book of 1994 Winner of 1995 The New York Times Review Notable Books An elaborate, elegant homage to the great Czech storyteller Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Watched Trains), The Book of Hrabal is also a farewell to the years of communism in Eastern Europe and a glowing paean to the mixed blessings of domestic life. Anna, blues-singing housewife and mother of three, addresses her reminiscences and reflections to Hrabal. They swing from domestic...
Winner of the 2004 German Publishers and Booksellers Association Peace Prize Named a New York Times Notable Book of 1994 Winner of 1995...
An extraordinary montage of sex and politics, Peter Esterhazy's innovative novel can be seen to prefigure the liberation of Eastern Europe. Written in 1982 and 1983 under what the author calls small, Hungarian, pornographic circumstances, A Little Hungarian Pornography exists in a context of official falsehood and misinformation, of lies of the body, the soul, and the state, perpetuated in the duality of language.
An extraordinary montage of sex and politics, Peter Esterhazy's innovative novel can be seen to prefigure the liberation of Eastern Europe. Written in...
An extraordinary montage of sex and politics, Peter Esterhazy's innovative novel can be seen to prefigure the liberation of Eastern Europe. Written under what the author calls "small, Hungarian, pornographic circumstances," A Little Hungarian Pornography exists in a context of official falsehood and misinformation, of lies of the body, the soul, and the state, perpetuated in the duality of language. In a state where the lack of democracy was called socialist democracy, economic chaos a socialist economy, and revolution an anti-revolution, the notion of speech and obscenity becomes...
An extraordinary montage of sex and politics, Peter Esterhazy's innovative novel can be seen to prefigure the liberation of Eastern Europe. Written un...
In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Peter Esterhazy blends magic realism and travel narrative to dazzling effect. Esterhazy's hero is a professional Traveller, commissioned -- like Marco Polo by Kubla Khan -- to undertake a voyage of discovery, and to prepare a travelogue about the Danube. Communicating his experiences through terse -- and at times surreal -- telegrams to his employer, the Traveller weaves a rich tapestry of narratives, evoking the dreamlike past and the precarious present of a disappearing world. Moving from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, Esterhazy...
In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Peter Esterhazy blends magic realism and travel narrative to dazzling effect. Esterhazy's hero ...
In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Peter Esterhazy blends magic realism and travel narrative to dazzling effect.
Esterhazy's hero is a professional Traveller, commissioned -- like Marco Polo by Kubla Khan -- to undertake a voyage of discovery and to prepare a travelogue about the Danube. Communicating his experiences through terse -- and at times surreal -- telegrams to his employer, the Traveller weaves a rich tapestry of narratives, evoking the dreamlike past and the precarious present of a disappearing world.
Moving from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, Esterhazy...
In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Peter Esterhazy blends magic realism and travel narrative to dazzling effect.
The Central European Classics Series started when Timothy Garton Ash, general editor of the series, began to note down titles recommended to him by local writers in dim cafes in Budapest and Prague, in the heyday of political transition in East-Central Europe in 1989-1990. Garton Ash's aim, to take these works of nineteenth-and early twentieth century classic fiction 'out of the ghetto', onto the shelves of Western booksellers, and into the consciousness of Western readers has been successfully achieved. The series got completed in 2002, reissued with new covers in 2003.
The Central European Classics Series started when Timothy Garton Ash, general editor of the series, began to note down titles recommended to him by lo...
Die Mutter ist tot, und die erwachsenen Kinder kommen beim Vater zusammen. Aber wovon reden, wenn nicht vom Hilflosen und Lächerlichen und Deplatzierten angesichts des Todes? Wie anders reden als in "Hilfsverben des Herzens"? Auch wenn der Erzähler sich im Vorwort Mitleid verbietet und mit Handke behauptet, seit dem Tod der Mutter ganz literarische Erinnerungs- und Formulierungsmaschine geworden zu sein - der Tod löst in dem erwachsenen Sohn eine Trauer aus, die sich im Sturm widerstreitender Gefühle Luft macht. Die Hilfsverben sind ein Tempel für die Mutter: hochliterarische, mit...
Die Mutter ist tot, und die erwachsenen Kinder kommen beim Vater zusammen. Aber wovon reden, wenn nicht vom Hilflosen und Lächerlichen und Deplatzier...
