Esti

Kornél Esti, a character first brought to life by Dezső Kosztolányi in 1933, has a mania for reflecting reality and believes that things and the words meant to describe them can coincide and be pulled apart; his doctor calls it double vision. Taking up that earlier book of loosely joined pieces, this one writes Esti's own travelogue and novelistic biography, recording among other things how many times the hero died in his sleep, yet it remains a fragment, a garland. Esti and Kornél Esti once boarded a tram unnoticed and got used to its rattling, until all they could think of was reaching the terminus one day.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

405 pages in the original

First published

2010 by Magvető

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789631428162 (original)