· Gyula Krúdy is a marvellous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of modern literature. Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own—dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic—where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and even madness.4/5(1). Buy a cheap copy of Sunflower book by Gyula Krúdy. Gyula Kr dy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are Free Shipping on all orders over $/5(2). · Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own—dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic—where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and madness. In Sunflower young Eveline leaves the city and returns to her country estate to escape the memory of her desperate love for the unscrupulous charmer Kálmán. There she encounters the melancholy Álmos-Dreamer, Pages:
Sunflower, by Gyula Krúdy, is a remarkable book featuring some deeply weird prose. Mostly it's about the love affairs of a handful of characters living in and around Budapest in the early 20th century. Eveline, the year-old woman who flees the city for her house in the country, to escape thoughts of her former fiancé; Kálmán, said lover. In a "New Yorker" profile, which is reprinted as the introduction to this edition of SUNFLOWER, John Lukacs writes that Gyula Krudy () was the greatest prose writer of Hungary in the 20th Century, and "surely one of the great writers of Europe." Others have bestowed similar accolades, comparing Krudy to the likes of Joseph Roth, Bruno. Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy (NYRB, trans. from the Hungarian by John Bátki, introduction by John Lukacs) Krúdy has been hailed by his fellow Hungarians as not only one of the greatest Hungarian writers, but maybe the greatest. He has been compared to Robert Walser and Bruno Schulz, not because of any similarities, but because, like them, he is.
Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own—dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic—where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and madness. In Sunflower young Eveline leaves the city and returns to her country estate to escape the memory of her desperate love for the unscrupulous charmer Kálmán. There she encounters the melancholy Álmos-Dreamer, who is languishing for love of her, and is visited by the bizarre and beautiful Miss Maszkerádi, a woman who is a. Sunflower begins with a ‘young miss reading a novel by the light of the candelabra’ who hears ‘faint creaks’ coming from another part of the house. As one works one’s way through the book one comes to realise just how many of Krudy’s preoccupations are evident in these opening sentences, and how much, specifically, they tell us about Eveline, who is one of the main characters. Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy Posted by trewisms 11/07/ Posted in books Tags: book review, gyula krudy, hungarian literature, sunflower gyula krudy “Let crazy life rush headlong on the highway for others; we shall contemplate the sunflowers, watch them sprout, blossom, fade away.
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