Kornél Esti
By: Dezső Kosztolányi ; translated by Bernard Adams
Contributors: Adams, Bernard
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780811218436
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction; Self-perception; Psychological fiction; Authorship; Doppelgängers; Fiction; Black humor
Work titles: Esti Kornél
Description: Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, The Adventures of Kornel Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked doppleganger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later. Part Gogol, part Chekhov, and all brilliance, Kosztolanyi 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?
Notes: "New Directions paperbook original (NDP 1194)"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the Hungarian.