Kosztolányi Dezső: Skylark (2010)

ISBN: 9781590173398

Kosztolányi Dezső: Skylark (2010)

ISBN: 9781590173398
4 095 Ft
Készlet: 1-10 darab
This alternately hilarious and melancholy classic of Hungarian literature plumbs the psyches of a husband and wife burdened with a homely daughter.
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Termékjellemzők

ISBN
9781590173398
Szerző
Kosztolányi Dezső
Oldalszám
222
Kötés
Puhakötés
Kiadó
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS
Kiadási év
2010
Formátum
Könyv
Nyelv
Angol
t is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and unmarried, Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives.Now Skylark is going away, for one week only, it’s true, but a week that yawns endlessly for her parents. What will they do? Before they know it, they are eating at restaurants, reconnecting with old friends, attending the theater. And this is just a prelude toFather’s night out at the Panther Club, about which the less said the better. Drunk, in the light of dawn Father surprises himself and Mother with his true, buried, unspeakable feelings about Skylark.