by Dezső Kosztolányi · Editions Viviane Hamy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782878582529
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«Anna la Douce» is Dezső Kosztolányi's psychological realist novel, published by Editions Viviane Hamy in paperback (312 pages, in French).
In Budapest in 1919, after the fall of Béla Kun, Anna enters service in the Vizy household, a bourgeois family. Her efficiency and docility make her the ideal maid, but her employers' coldness and contempt fuel a buried tension that culminates in an act of violence.
Novel originally published in Hungarian as «Édes Anna» in 1926; the French translation is by Eva Vingiano de Pina Martins.
A work for readers of twentieth-century Hungarian literature and European classics.
Dezső Kosztolányi was a Hungarian writer, journalist, translator, and also a speaker of Esperanto. He wrote in all literary genres, from poetry to essays to theatre plays. Building his own style, he used French symbolism, impressionism, expressionism and psychological realism. He is considered the father of futurism in Hungarian literature.
