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"Tranquility is a moving, emotionally complex, subtle, shocking novel..."--Los Angeles TimesTranquility, the acclaimed third novel by Hungarian Attila Bartis, is simultaneously a private psychodrama and a portrait of the end of the Communist era. Reading it, “we arrive at ourselves, at our own obsessions, in our own silence,” writes Ilma Rakusa. A thirty-six-year-old writer struggles to escape his hellish, Oedipal inter dependency with his actress mother as Hungary’s Communist infrastructure collapses around him. One of the most psychologically dark and ironic novels to have emerged from contemporary Hungarian literature, it is also, as far as human psychology and political farce are concerned, one of the most illuminating.Attila Bartis has been hailed by Hungarian readers as a maverick, unorthodox, and highly inventive postmodern writer. Tranquility is his first novel to appear in English.Imre Goldstein has translate...

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Author

Bartis, Attila; Goldstein, Imre

Publisher

Archipelago Books : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780981987347

Category

work of fiction

Rating

4.04 / 5 (307 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14