{"product_id":"skylark-paperback","title":"Skylark - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDezso Kosztolanyi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Esterhazy\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eRichard Aczel\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays--call them Mother and Father--live in S rszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and unmarried, Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow Skylark is going away, for one week only, it's true, but a week that yawns endlessly for her parents. What will they do? Before they know it, they are eating at restaurants, reconnecting with old friends, attending the theater. And this is just a prelude to Father's night out at the Panther Club, about which the less said the better. Drunk, in the light of dawn Father surprises himself and Mother with his true, buried, unspeakable feelings about Skylark. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen, Skylark is back. Is there a world beyond the daily grind and life's creeping disappointments? Kosztol nyi's crystalline prose, perfect comic timing, and profound human sympathy conjure up a tantalizing beauty that lies on the far side of the irredeemably ordinary. To that extent, \u003ci\u003eSkylark\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than a magical book.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDezso Kosztolányi (1885-1936) was born in Subotica, a provincial Austro-Hungarian city (located in present-day Serbia) that would serve as the model for the fictional town in which he later set several novels, including \u003ci\u003eSkylark\u003c\/i\u003e. His father was the headmaster of the local gymnasium, which he attended until he was expelled for insubordination. Kosztolányi spent three years studying Hungarian and German at the University of Budapest, but quit in 1906 to go into journalism. In 1908 he was among the first contributors to the legendary literary journal Nyugat; in 1910, the publication of his second collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Complaints of a Poor Little Chil\u003c\/i\u003ed, caused a literary sensation. Kosztolányi turned from poetry to fiction in the 1920s, when he wrote the novels \u003ci\u003eNero, the Bloody Poet\u003c\/i\u003e (to which Thomas Mann contributed a preface); \u003ci\u003eSkylark\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAnna Edes\u003c\/i\u003e. An influential critic and, in 1931, the first president of the Hungarian PEN Club, Kosztolányi was also celebrated as the translator of such varied writers as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Goethe, and Rilke, as well as for his anthology of Chinese and Japanese poetry. He was married to the actress Ilona Harmos and had one son. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Aczel teaches English literature at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is a playwright and founding director of the theater company Port in Air. His translations from the Hungarian include Ádám Bodor's \u003ci\u003eThe Euphrates at Babylon \u003c\/i\u003eand Péter Esterházy's \u003ci\u003eThe Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn: Down the Danube.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePéter Esterházy was born in Budapest in 1950. He is one of Hungary's most prominent writers, and his short stories, novels, and essays have been published in more than twenty languages.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.06 x 5.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247068627193,"sku":"9781590173398","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RmtpdWlVZmJ2VENjN2hzM0hnZFRFZz09.webp?v=1768620831","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/skylark-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}