Portraits of a Marriage - Sándor Márai
Portraits of a Marriage - Sándor Márai A rediscovered masterwork from famed Hungarian novelist S ndor M rai, Portraits of a Marriage tracks the lifelong entanglement of a man and two women haunted by…
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Portraits of a Marriage - Sándor Márai
A rediscovered masterwork from famed Hungarian novelist S ndor M rai, Portraits of a Marriage tracks the lifelong entanglement of a man and two women haunted by class differences and misdirected longings.Peter and Ilonka are a wealthy couple whose outwardly perfect marriage is undone by secrets. What Judit longs for most, however, is freedom from the constraints of the society that has ensnared all three in a vortex of love and loss. The insecure Ilonka believes she can never be elegant and refined enough for her husband, while Peter has long been tormented by his forbidden love for Judit, a peasant and servant in his childhood home.
Set against the backdrop of Hungary between the wars, in a world on the verge of dramatic change, this exquisite novel offers further posthumous evidence of Marai's brilliance.Translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes