The door / Magda Szabo ; translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix ; introduction by Ali Smith.

By:

SzaboÌ, Magda, 1917-2007

Contributor(s):

Rix, L. B. (Len B.)

Language: English Original language: Hungarian Series: New York Review Books classicsPublisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2015]Description: ix, 262 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781590177716 (paperback : alk. paper)

Uniform titles:

AjtoÌ. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction.

Additional physical formats: Online version:: DoorDDC classification:

894/.51133 23

LOC classification:

PH3351.S592 A7413 2015

Other classification:

FIC019000 | FIC032000 | FIC025000

Summary: "The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship with Hungary's Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda's housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda's household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love--at least until Magda's long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. Len Rix's prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer"-- Provided by publisher.

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"The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship with Hungary's Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda's housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda's household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love--at least until Magda's long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. Len Rix's prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer"-- Provided by publisher.