Dezsö Kosztolányi's "Kornel Esti: A Novel" - Words Without Borders
Dezsö Kosztolányi’s “Kornel Esti: A Novel” New Directions, 2011 Esti is not a classic, Gothic doppelganger, not Jekyll to the narrator's 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 headlong into Bernard Adams’s able translation, just out from New Directions. If we are to treat the ...
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