{"product_id":"kornel-esti-9780811218436","title":"Kornel Esti","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA great masterpiece never before available in English, \u003cem\u003eKornél Esti\u003c\/em\u003e is the wild final book by a Hungarian genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each of these stories displays a mastery of texture, nuance, and pacing that is absolutely first rate.\" -- Christopher Byrd - The Daily Beast\u003cbr\u003e\"Kosztolányi was a ringleader in the 20th-century flowering of Hungarian literature, a poet who reformed the language, and a fiction writer of world class.\" -- The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most important and glittering writers of a Hungarian golden age, Kosztolányi is multicolored and ineffable, like a rainbow. At the end of his life, the virtuoso Kornél Esti appears.\" -- Peter Esterházy\u003cbr\u003e\"If anyone ever truly wanted to write the history of the Hungarian people, the author would certainly take that Dantean first sentence of Kosztolányi’s \u003cem\u003eKornél Esti\u003c\/em\u003e as the work’s epigraph: in a word, the most wondrous first sentence ever written in the Hungarian language.\" -- László Krasznahorkai\u003cbr\u003e\"A tender comedy tinged with the absurdity of life, the thrill of sociability, and the imminence of death, which I guess is exactly the kind of book I like.\" -- Chad Harbach","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405679534423,"sku":"9780811218436","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780811218436.jpg?v=1730493250","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kornel-esti-9780811218436","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}