By Dezs? Kosztolányi
Translated via Richard Aczel
An stated masterpiece of twentieth-century Hungarian fiction, Dezso Kosztolanyi's Skylark is a portrait of provincial existence within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy on the flip of the century. Set in autumn of 1899, it specializes in one remarkable week within the differently uneventful lives of an aged Hungarian couple. Their gruesome spinster daughter, nicknamed Skylark, las left them for and exceptional vacation with family within the nation. first and foremost the couple, whose whole life revolves round their daughter, are devastated via her absence. Slowly, even though, they rediscover the delights and diversions of small-town society lifestyles, ultimately attaining the stunning end that their daughter is a burden to them.
during this superbly written tale--introduced by way of considered one of Hungary's most fun modern novelists--Kosztolanyi turns relations sentiment on its head with a sarcasm that's as telling now because it was once approximately seventy years in the past.
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His hair, brushed straight back, is going white but his bushy eyebrows are still black. Rabbit Remembered 61 The wife speaks up: “Even as a little boy, though, he stood apart a little. He would play with others, but then wander away and come inside. ’ As if he didn’t see the point of people. He was quiet. ” “My wife imagines things in hindsight,” Mr. DiLorenzo says, sitting back erect, his eyes enlarged by thick spectacles, eyes frayed to death from closely inspecting fabric. “He was a perfectly normal boy.
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