Metropole (Karinthy Ferenc)(Paperback)

"A Central European classic to be discovered and relished."--Eva Hoffman"A stunning novel. Funny, nightmarish and jubilant."--Lib rationAlthough it took almost 40 years for Metropole to be translated into English, the book holds up well. In the same way that Kafka becomes relevant again every time you renew your driver's license, Karinthy captures that enduring, horrifying and exhilarating state of being at the mercy of an unfamiliar land.--Jessa Crispin for NPR "I don't know when I've read a more perfect novel-a dynamically helpless hero (in the line of Kafka), and a gorgeous spiral of action, nothing spare, nothing wrong, inventive and without artifice."--Michael Hoffman in TLS Books of the Year 2009Budai finds himself in a strange city where he can't understand a word anyone says. One claustrophobic day blurs into another as he
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