Story of a Stammer: The Hungarian List
Autor Gábor Vida Traducere de Jozefina Komporalyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 ian 2023
In the novel Story of a Stammer, Gábor Vida asks a fundamental question: Where does stammering come from? In the process of answering this question, he discovers that an entire historical period and an entire world have been stammering, too. Through Vida’s eyes, we see that stammering comprises all the lies accumulated over time and over generations because nobody had ever articulated what they felt or thought, nor done what they really wanted. Nobody, Vida shows, had ever told the truth.
Describing life in the 1970s and ’80s under Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceauçescu’s authoritarian regime, Vida writes with disarming honesty, breaking taboos and chronicling the ways in which tyranny and exploitation seep into family relationships. The novel charts the first two decades of a young Hungarian man’s life in Romania, telling a story of coming to terms with a stammer, loneliness, and an unstimulating environment where religion, alcoholism, and suicide are the most common escape strategies. A Bildungsroman, a novel about Transylvania, a chronicle of minority life, a sociological analysis of cultural identity, and ultimately a deeply personal account of a historical era, Story of a Stammer is a major contribution to contemporary Hungarian literature—an unfailingly serious yet humorously delightful witness to a turbulent period in recent history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780857429858
ISBN-10: 085742985X
Pagini: 412
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Seagull Books
Colecția Seagull Books
Seria The Hungarian List
ISBN-10: 085742985X
Pagini: 412
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Seagull Books
Colecția Seagull Books
Seria The Hungarian List
Notă biografică
Gábor Vida is a Hungarian writer from Romania, currently editor-in-chief of the prestigious literary magazine Látó. In 2021, Story of a Stammer was voted the best Hungarian novel of the decade 2010–2019. Jozefina Komporaly is a London-based academic and translator from Romanian and Hungarian into English. Her recent translations for Seagull Books include Mr K Released by Matéi Visniec and The Glance of the Medusa by László F. Földényi.
Cuprins
1.Scenes from a Life
2.Family
3.Tom and Will
4.The Other Side
5.The Stammer
6.The Székely
7.The Great Hungarian Plain
8.Kisjeno
9.Itchy Feet
10.The Order of Things
11.Home
12.School
13.Illness
14.Summer Holiday
15.Arad
16.Transylvania
17.The Army
18.What’s Left?
2.Family
3.Tom and Will
4.The Other Side
5.The Stammer
6.The Székely
7.The Great Hungarian Plain
8.Kisjeno
9.Itchy Feet
10.The Order of Things
11.Home
12.School
13.Illness
14.Summer Holiday
15.Arad
16.Transylvania
17.The Army
18.What’s Left?
Recenzii
"A rich bildungsroman, the story of a young man growing up, arranged in a mixture of chronological and thematical order, a 'precocious' autobiography colored by the physical and intellectual struggles and wanderings of the author. . . . Story of My Stammer reads effortlessly. . ."