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Kornél Esti / Dezső Kosztolányi ; translated by Bernard Adams.
- Title
- Kornél Esti / Dezső Kosztolányi ; translated by Bernard Adams.
- Author
- Kosztolányi, Dezső, 1885-1936
- Publication
- New York : New Directions, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PH3281.K85 E6713 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 233 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, The Adventures of Kornel Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked doppleganger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later. Part Gogol, part Chekhov, and all brilliance, Kosztolanyi in his final book serves up his most magical, radical, and intoxicating work. Here is a novel which inquires: What if your id (loyally keeping your name) decides to strike out on its own, cuts a disreputable swath through the world, and then sends home to you all its unpaid bills and ruined maidens? And then: What if you and your alter ego decide to write a book together?
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; NDP1194
- Uniform Title
- Esti Kornél. English
- New Directions paperbook 1194.
- Alternative Title
- Esti Kornél.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Black humor (Literature)
- Autobiographical fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Fiction
- Note
- "A New Directions paperbook original"--P.[4] of cover.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780811218436 (paperbook : alk. paper) :
- 0811218430 (paperbook : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010048874
- OCLC
- 601107740
- SCSB-11682598
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library