Peter Esterhazy
Hungarian author whose baroque, allusive fiction is among the most ambitious in contemporary European literature. Celestial Harmonies is a monumental exploration of his aristocratic family's history under communism.
Works
- Celestial HarmoniesBaroque Hungarian novel exploring love, language, and philosophical abstraction
- Helping Verbs of the HeartExperimental meditation on human emotion expressed through linguistic play
- She Loves MePlayful yet melancholic narrative about desire and romantic entanglement
- A Little Hungarian PornographyProvocative title obscuring a sophisticated exploration of Hungarian culture and identity
- The Glance of Countess Hahn-HahnHistorical literary fiction centering on a nineteenth-century Hungarian countess