Kornel Esti (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811218436)

Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later.

Part Gogol, part Chekhov, and all brilliance, Kosztolányi in his final book serves up his most magical, radical, and intoxicating work. Here is a novel which inquires: What if your id (loyally keeping your name) decides to strike out on its own, cuts a disreputable swath through the world, and then sends home to you all its unpaid bills and ruined maidens? And then: What if you and your alter ego decide to write a book together?

Author: Deszö Kosztolányi
ISBN-10: 0811218430
ISBN-13: 9780811218436
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2011
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Award: Best Translated Book Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2010