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Anna Edes: Novel

Anna Edes: Novel

Szirtes, George
Kosztolányi, Dezso

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Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0811212556
ISBN13: 9780811212557
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Nov 17 1993
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
A skillful portrayal of the cruelty and emptiness of bourgeois life, Anna Édes was first published in 1926 and enthusiastically received by the intellectual coffee-house society through which it circulated. The novel was later acknowledged by authors such as Thomas Mann as a model of language and form, and in turn established Dezso Kosztolanyi as one of the most significant writers of Eastern European fiction. Anna is the hard-working and long-suffering heroine, the unhappy maid destroyed by her pitiless employers. Her tragic relationship with them is played out against the political turbulence in Budapest following the First World War. Yet her endurance and revenge are depicted with keen psychological as well as historical insight, becoming, in the words of the translator, not merely an argument about social conditions but raised to genuine tragedy.

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