Magda Szabo
Hungarian novelist whose fiction portrays Hungarian intellectual and bourgeois life with psychological acuity and narrative sophistication. The Door is her masterpiece, a haunting study of the relationship between a writer and her housekeeper.
Works
- The DoorHungarian woman's complex relationship with her housemaid across decades
- AbigailMoral inquiry into class, education, and feminine identity in Hungarian society
- The FawnPsychological portrait of female adolescence and awakening to mortality
- Katalin StreetHistorical novel tracing four families during Hungarian WWII turmoil and devastation
- Iza's Ballad