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Tranquility
Andor Weer, a 36-year-old writer, lives in a small apartment with his reclusive 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, he finds himself caught in a web of bitter interdependence which spirals into a Sartrian hell of hatred, lies and appeasement. 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. A masterwork.
Tranquility
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 cramped apartment 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 wit...
The End
A serpentine maze of memory and artistic obsession in post-war communist Hungary told in bold experimental style and perfect for fans of Helen DeWitt Nothing approximates death as closely as photography. Unspooling like a roll of film, The End captures in frames of language the faces and places of András’ memory, which together form a fever-dream collage of an artist’s psyche. In a small town in communist Hungary, András Szabad’s childhood comes to an abrupt end with his father’s return from prison and the death of his loving mother. In search of new beginnings, András moves with his father to Budapest, where he discovers a passion for photography, for uncovering the invisible thr...
Rust
In het hedendaagse Boedapest zoekt een jonge schrijver temidden van corruptie naar echte genegenheid.
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Sfîrşitul
Ajuns la vârsta de cincizeci şi doi de ani şi suspectat de o boală mortală, faimosul fotograf András Szabad se hotărăşte să-şi rememoreze viaţa, pentru a o înţelege mai bine el însuşi. Maturizat în Ungaria comunistă a lui János Kádár, cu o mamă pe care o adoră, dar care moare devreme, şi un tată fost deţinut politic, András se arată refractar la lumea din jur. Renunţă la şcoală, are o relaţie tensionată cu tatăl său, cu care locuieşte într-un apartament din Budapesta, şi îşi găseşte refugiul în arta fotografică. Face fotografii artistice, mai întâi pe cont propriu, iar apoi ca ucenic al unui fotograf bătrân, care are un atelier pentru poze de ...
Das Ende
András Szabad wächst in einer ungarischen Kleinstadt auf, innig geliebt von seiner Mutter, einer Bibliothekarin. 1956 wird sein Vater wegen Teilnahme am Aufstand verhaftet. Als er nach drei Jahren völlig gebrochen nach Hause kommt, stirbt die Mutter – das Ende einer Kindheit. Mit dem Vater zieht er nach Budapest, und András entdeckt das Fotografieren. Die Kamera wird seine Leidenschaft, das Organ, mit dem er der Welt auflauert, sie sich vom Leib hält und aufs Bild bannt. Nie lässt er sie los, die Kamera ist immer dabei, auch wenn er sich verliebt. Als er Jahrzehnte später vom Unfalltod Évas erfährt, einer nach Amerika emigrierten Pianistin, mit der ihn eine Amour fou verband, begi...
Parallel Stories
In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This classic police-procedural scene opens an extraordinary novel, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans - Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies - across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century. The social and political circumstances of their lives may vary richly, their sexual and spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Peter Nádas's magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny, reverberating parallels that link them across time and space. Three unusual men are at the heart of P...
Promenade
Une voix puissante et libre raconte une jeunesse dans un pays en voie de dissolution. Devenu le témoin d'une série d'atrocités subies par ses proches, le personnage principal doit fuir et peine à se reconstruire. Promenade peu commune, pendant laquelle son être profond se dévoilera. Intensité de l'écriture, histoire forte et allégorique, ce roman est un petit diamant noir. Attila Bartis, par ailleurs photographe, crée des images et des scènes inoubliables, tout en montrant les conséquences intimes des grands bouleversements historiques. Grâce à son précédent roman, La Tranquillité, ce talentueux auteur, traduit dans plusieurs pays, est devenu l'un des principaux représentants de la nouvelle littérature hongroise. Transposés en français par les traducteurs d'Imre Kertész, le style et l'imaginaire très personnels d'Attila Bartis ont été salués avec enthousiasme par la presse française.
