| Ebook's Category: European Literature | Language of Ebook: English |
| Add. Info: Paperback, 240 pages | Author's Name: Dezső Kosztolányi, Bernard Adams |
| Stars Rating: 4.19 of 5 stars | Book Published: February 25th 2011 by New Directions (first published 1933) |
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| Book's Rating: 409 ratings | Ebook Tags: European Literature, Hungarian Literature, Fiction, Cultural, Hungary, Short Stories, Classics, Literature, Literature, 20th Century |
E-Book Review:
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. Her 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 and ruined maidens? And then: What if you and your alter ego decide to write a book together?
