Tag: Hungarian
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Finished: Kornél Esti
As I mentioned in the last post, this book was exactly what I needed. A bit of farce, a bit of history, plenty of intellectual and bourgeois hijinks… I guess, by the end, I realized this book was more episodic than I thought it’d be. It stopped following the initial narrative and instead snapped brief…
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In Progress: Kornél Esti
I’m absolutely in love with this book, which hits all the rollicking pre-war/interwar European farce I need. I’m about 2/3 of the way through (having read half in the pool two days ago, fantastic choice). This is a paperback I bought at a local book fair almost a decade ago. But my genuine obsession with…
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Journey by Moonlight, by Antal Szerb
I loved this book! Prose was tight and clear yet beautiful. The plot moved at a reliable pace, which worked really well in concert with all the twists and tangles of the characters’ lives. The translator (Len Rix)’s work seems really deft and thoughtful here. From the publisher (NYRB’s description, much much preferable to the…
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Two quick reads and a novel in progress
This week I had a hard time finding something I was in the mood for. Stranded in the no-man’s-land of midnight sleeplessness, a copy of Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop popped up in Libby & I read the thing in one go. Is it good, in that resonant way that bodes repeated reading? No. But…