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A Little Hungarian Pornography

by Peter Esterhazy

Provocative title obscuring a sophisticated exploration of Hungarian culture and identity

About the author

Peter Esterhazy

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.

More by Peter Esterhazy

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
The Glance of Countess Hahn-HahnHistorical literary fiction centering on a nineteenth-century Hungarian countess