Dezso Kosztolanyi
Hungarian author and poet considered one of the finest prose stylists in the Hungarian language. Skylark and Anna Edes are his most celebrated novels, portraits of provincial Hungarian life with bitter irony and compassion.
Works
- SkylarkHungarian wife endures neglect and resignation with quiet, devastating dignity
- Anna EdesServant's tale of beauty, seduction, and downfall in early twentieth-century Hungary
- Nero the Bloody PoetImagined portrait of the Roman emperor's psychological decay and artistic obsession
- Kornél EstiConnected stories of a vagabond navigating life's absurdities and spiritual hunger
- The Lark