Dezso Kosztolanyi

Skylark

Hungarian wife endures neglect and resignation with quiet, devastating dignity

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Dezso Kosztolanyi
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.

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