Volume 48, Number 20 · December 20, 2001
Dupe of History
By J.M. Coetzee
Embers
by Sándor Márai,translated by Carol Brown Janeway
Knopf, 213 pp., $21.00
Das Vermächtnis der Eszter(Eszter's Legacy)
by Sándor Márai,translated by Christina Viragh
Munich: Piper, 165 pp., DM32.00
Bekenntnisse eines Bürgers: Erinnerungen (Confessions of a Bourgeois: A Memoir)
by Sándor Márai, translated by Hans Skirecki
Munich: Piper, 419 pp., DM19.90 (paper)
Land, Land! Erinnerungen(Land, Land: A Memoir)
by Sándor Márai, translated by Hans Skirecki
Munich: Piper, 317 pp., DM19.90 (paper)
Memoir of Hungary, 1944–1948
by Sándor Márai, translated by Albert Tezla
Budapest: Corvina/Central European University Press, 427 pp., $26.95 (paper)
Der Wind kommt vom Westen: Amerikanische Reisebilder(The Wind Comes from the West)
by Sándor Márai, translated by Artur Saternus
Langen Müller, 200 pp., DM29.91
We are with the old General, Henrik, in his castle in Hungary. The year is 1940. For twenty years the General has not appeared in public. Now he is to have a visitor, the bosom friend of his youth, Konrad.
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