Postcard from London: And Other Stories - Couverture rigide

Mandy, Ivan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857428861 ISBN 13 : 9780857428868

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

The first comprehensive volume in English from one of Hungary's most popular twentieth-century writers.

Iván Mándy (1918-1995) has been called "the prose poet of Budapest," and this volume of short stories presents the first comprehensive collection of his work in English. His early oeuvre created an urban mythology full of picaresque characters inhabiting the seedier neighborhoods of the city: its flea-market stalls, second-run cinemas, and old-fashioned coffeehouses. The stories from the later decades of Mándy's life, often bordering on the absurd, introduce many autobiographical elements spun around the author's alter-ego, János Zsámboky, whose hapless adventures on a rare trip abroad constitute this group of stories, including "Postcard from London." Mándy's unique style at times borrows techniques from films and radio plays, his quirky cuts creating a flicker of images seen in the mind's eye. Memory and perception, time and place spin in narrative legerdemain that invites and rewards the reader's active participation.

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À propos des auteurs

Iván Mándy (1918-1995) was one of the most widely read Hungarian writers of the postwar period. He was coeditor of the independent literary review Újhold until its suppression in 1948.

John Batki, born in Hungary, has lived in the United States since age fourteen. His numerous translations from Hungarian literature include works by László Krasznahorkai and Gyula Krúdy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857428861
• ISBN 13: 9780857428868
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 356
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• Personne responsable: non disponible