The fawn
Szabó, Magda, 1917-20072024
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Eszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous, quick-witted but callous. Yet even flushed with the success of adulthood, Eszter craves acceptance of herself as she really is and of the person she has been. The only child of an impoverished aristocrat and a harried music teacher failing to make ends meet, Eszter grew up poor and painfully aware of it in a provincial Hungarian town. The feelings of resentment and envy acquired during her fraught childhood have hardened into an obsessional hatred for one person, the beautiful, saintly and pampered Angéla, Eszter's former classmate and the wife of the man who becomes her lover.
Main title:
The fawn / Magda Szabó ; translated by Len Rix.
Author:
Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007, authorRix, L. B. (Len B.), translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2024.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Hungarian.
ISBN:
9781529425659 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
894.511334
Language:
EnglishHungarian
BRN:
2409992