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A transplanted Californian and former conscientious objector, he infused Thai music with Western sounds as a prominent composer and performer based in Bangkok.

Dezsö Kosztolányi’s “Kornel Esti: A Novel” New Directions, 2011 Esti is not a classic, Gothic doppelganger, not Jekyll to the narrators Hyde, but more of a magician who can seem to lift a house by playing a magic flute. Kornél Esti: A Novel is Hungarian writer Dezsö Kosztolányi’s last work of fiction. Since its publication in 1936, it’s been hailed as a classic, and a wildly popular one at that, so there’s possibly no better way to showcase its many virtues than to plunge head...