Life Is a Dream
by Gyula Krúdy
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Life is a Dream (1931) is Gyula Krudy's magical collection of ten short stories. Creating a world where editors shoot themselves after a hard day's brunching, men attend duels incognito and lovers fall out over salad dressing, Life is a Dream is a comic, nostalgic, romantic and erotic glimpse into the Hungary of the early twentieth century. Focussing on the poor and dispossessed, these tales of love, food, death and sex are ironic and wise about the human condition and the futility of life, show more and display fully Krudy's wit and mastery of the form. show lessTags
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I was a big fan of the extremely strange Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy and so I was eager to read this collection of short stories. They turn out to also be strange, but in a very different way. Most of them involve the frequenters of taverns in 1920s Hungary, and while the characters and plots are different, all of the stories feature a lot of detail about food, almost too much (both food and detail), and also mostly involve love and death. I liked the longish "The Green Ace" the best,but didn't find any of the stories truly compelling, although they certainly paint a picture of a time and a place.
O Escritor Deszo Kosztolanyi devia escolher um livro para indicar para um prêmio literário na Hungria. Ele queria escolher Gyula Krúdy, escritor antes célebre que estava no ostracismo. Havia um problema: o prêmio era para livros publicados naquele ano, e Krúdy não tinha publicado nada. Então Krúdy escolheu nove contos publicados em revistas que Kosztolányi publicou às próprias custas, para garantir que o autor fosse indicado. Ele ganhou o prêmio e o livro se tornou uma coletânea popular, com a adição de um décimo conto, principalmente depois que Sándor Márai publicou seu conto Szinbad volta para casa, uma versão ficcional do último dia de Krúdy.
O mestre da literatura húngara escolheu seus contos preferidos, que show more falam dos sonhos reais da vida, de comida, digestão, vinhos e doenças. Uma excelente leitura. show less
O mestre da literatura húngara escolheu seus contos preferidos, que show more falam dos sonhos reais da vida, de comida, digestão, vinhos e doenças. Uma excelente leitura. show less
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- Canonical title
- Life Is a Dream
- Original title
- Az élet álom
- Original publication date
- 1931
- Original language
- Hungarian
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 894.511332 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Finno-Ugric languages Ugric languages Hungarian Hungarian fiction 1900–2000 Early 20th century 1900–1945
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- PH3281 .K89 .E4413 — Language and Literature Uralic languages. Basque language Uralic. Basque Hungarian
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