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Attila Bartis Tranquility (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Tranquility
- Publication Name
- Tranquility
- Title
- Tranquility
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0980033004
- EAN
- 9780980033007
- ISBN
- 9780980033007
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 24/10/2008
- Release Year
- 2008
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 7.2in
- Item Weight
- 13.7 Oz
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Topic
- Psychological, Family Life, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Number of Pages
- 292 Pages
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Tranquility is a living seismograph of the internal quakes and ruptures of a mother and son trapped within an Oedipal nightmare amidst the suffocating totalitarian embrace of Communist Hungary. Andor We r, a thirty-six-year-old writer, lives in a cramped apartment with his shut-in mother, Rebeka, who was once among the most celebrated stage actresses in Budapest. Unable to withstand her maniacal tyranny but afraid to leave her alone, their bitter interdependence spirals into a Sartrian hell of hatred, lies, and appeasement. Then Andor meets the beautiful and nurturing Eszter, a woman who seems to have no past, and they fall wildly in love at first sight. With a fulfilling life seemingly within reach for the first time, Andor decides that he is ready to bring Eszter home to meet Mother. Though Bartis's characters are unrepentantly neurotic and dressed in the blackest humor, his empathy for them is profound. A political farce of the highest ironic order, concluding that "freedom is a condition unsuitable for humans," Tranquility is ultimately, at its splanchnic core, a complex psychodrama turned inside out, revealing with visceral splendor the grotesque notion that there's nothing funnier than unhappiness.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
0980033004
ISBN-13
9780980033007
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65977299
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tranquility
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Family Life, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
292 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
13.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ph3213.B2976n9413
Reviews
"GREAT ANTICIPATION preceded the release of the maverick writer Attila Bartis's new novel, A nyugalom ( Tranquility ), after his previous book, A keklo para ( Bluish Mist ; see WLT 73:4, P. 784), had solidified his fame as an unorthodox, highly inventive postmodern writer. Its reception has been almost as ambiguous as its main character's psyche. Through anguished retrospection and daredevilish rumination, a baffling and mesmerizing tale unfolds in communist Hungary."-- WLT, Jan. 02 "Bartis at times puts one in mind of Joyce, at others of Kafka, at others of Roth, yet ultimately eludes all comparison by the strength of his originality."-- Arturo Mantecon, ForeWord "Oddly beautiful and unsettling, the novel boldly illustrates the lengths people go to in securing their own private hells." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Reading like the bastard child of Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek, Tranquility is political and personal suffering distilled perfectly and transformed into dark, viscid beauty. It is among the most haunted, most honest, and most human novels I have ever read."-- Brian Evenson "With impressive force of language, Bartis succeeds in laying bare the ambivalences of his characters, their love-hate relationships and self-destructive energies & The play that mother and son perform & is part Strindberg and part Chekhov, but mostly sheer Beckett or even pure theater of cruelty." --Richard Kammerlings, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Reading like the bastard child of Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek, Tranquility is political and personal suffering distilled perfectly and transformed into dark, viscid beauty. It is among the most haunted, most honest, and most human novels I have ever read. --Brian Evenson A venerable--even Endgame-ish--addition to the literature of unhappy families. --Rivka Galchen With impressive force of language, Bartis succeeds in laying bare the ambivalences of his characters, their love-hate relationships and self destructive energies . . . The play that mother and son perform . . . is part Strindberg and part Chekhov, but mostly sheer Beckett or even pure theater of cruelty. --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Oddly beautiful and unsettling, the novel boldly illustrates the lengths people go to in securing their own private hells. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review), Reading like the bastard child of Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek, Tranquility is political and personal suffering distilled perfectly and transformed into dark, viscid beauty. It is among the most haunted, most honest, and most human novels I have ever read. -Brian Evenson A venerable-even Endgame-ish-addition to the literature of unhappy families. -Rivka Galchen With impressive force of language, Bartis succeeds in laying bare the ambivalences of his characters, their love-hate relationships and self destructive energies . . . The play that mother and son perform . . . is part Strindberg and part Chekhov, but mostly sheer Beckett or even pure theater of cruelty. -Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Oddly beautiful and unsettling, the novel boldly illustrates the lengths people go to in securing their own private hells. Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2008-015344
Dewey Decimal
Fic
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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