The quiet horror of self-destructive love fuels this beautifully proportioned novella; since Embers (2001), this is the third work of the Hungarian (1900-89) to be translated into English.
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"A compelling novel that nonetheless carries the ponderous weight of the era's events and ideas."
A newly translated 1930 novel by Hungarian author Márai, set among a group of young men during WWI, joins two other works by the author to enjoy recent play in the publishing sun: Embers (2001) and Casanova in Bolzano (2004).
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"Issues of war, peace and reality are overshadowed by the thoroughly depressing figure of Korin, 'the personification of defeat.'"
Burrow into the dense prose of this novel—the Hungarian author's second U.S. publication (following The Melancholy of Resistance, 2000)—about an archivist on a mission and you'll find a story-within-a-story.
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"Not an easy read, but ingeniously composed and fascinating."
A first English translation of a 1989 Hungarian novel, in which the arrival of a traveling circus in a nondescript village arouses local curiosity, paranoia, and terror and ends in a kind of communal madness.
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