The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube) |
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| Author:
| Esterhazy, Peter |
| Translator:
| Aczel, Richard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-1642-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1998 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $27.00 |
Book Description:
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In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Péter Esterházy tells the story of a professional traveler, commissioned--like Marco Polo by Kublai Khan--to undertake a voyage of discovery and prepare a travelogue. Communicating the details of his journey through terse and surreal telegrams, the Traveller weaves a rich tapestry of narratives, evoking the ethereal past and the precarious present of a disappearing world.
In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Péter Esterházy tells the story of a professional traveler, commissioned--like Marco Polo by Kublai Khan--to undertake a voyage of discovery and prepare a travelogue. Communicating the details of his journey through terse and surreal telegrams, the Traveller weaves a rich tapestry of narratives, evoking the ethereal past and the precarious present of a disappearing world.