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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 688
Utgivningsdatum: 2020-03-26
Förlag: Pushkin Press
Översättare: Mark Baczoni
Originalspråk: Hungarian
Dimensioner: 198 x 129 x 55 mm
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ISBN: 9781782275480

Temptation

Name: Temptation
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Author: Jnos Szkely
ISBN: 9781782275480

av Jnos Szkely

Häftad, Engelska, 2020-03-26

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Bla has never had much luck. His mother abandoned him at birth to go to work in Budapest, leaving him in the care of the dubious 'Aunt Rozika', a former prostitute who now runs a foster home with equal parts hauteur and cruelty. Victimised and almost starved by his guardian, Bla must fight for everything, from scraps of the other boys' food to the right to go to school. At fourteen he is caught trying to steal a pair of shoes; his mother is called and she reluctantly takes him with her to Budapest. Once in the capital Bla manages to secure a position at a grand old hotel, and it is here that a more privileged lifestyle seems to extend a hand to him. Operating the lift, Bla encounters people from across Hungarian society and beyond, including the beautiful daughter of an American businessman and a passionate revolutionary. But his new lifestyle offers both pleasures and perils, and Bla must find a way to forge his own life from the divergent influences that surround him. A picaresque classic with a rich vein of bawdy humour, Temptation is an under-appreciated masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction. Rich, varied and endlessly entertaining, the novel creates a stunning panorama of Hungarian society through the travails of its singularly charming hero.

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Temptation is a fascinating novel set in the Horthy period, and its author, Jnos Szkely, is equally fascinating... The densely packed story is, in genre terms, a racy, filmic cross between a Picaresque and a Bildungsroman * TLS *

Jnos Szkely was a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter. He fled Budapest for Berlin, where he penned scripts for silent movie stars including Marlene Dietrich. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States and continued writing for films in Hollywood, winning an Academy Award for Best Story for Arise, My Love in 1940. His novel Temptation was initially published in English translation in 1946 under the pseudonym John Pen. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, Szkely spent several years in Mexico with his family before returning to Berlin in 1957. He died there in 1958.