de Sándor Márai
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de Sándor Márai
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de Roberto Bolaño
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First published in 1930, this lugubrious novel is the third by Hungarian novelist Márai (1900–1989) to be translated into English in the last decade. Four class of 1918 students expect to be in uniform and at the front by the end of the summer. Over the course of their last year of school, they have played an elaborate game of thievery, stealing petty cash and useless items—mostly from their own families—and storing the purloined objects in rooms rented from a local inn, to which they repair after lunch to "continue playing at childhood." By the end of the school year, however, the game has escalated beyond their control; Tibor Prockauer, the most aristocratic of the group, has pawned the family silver, and the gang (including grocer's son Béla, doctor's son Ábel and poor cobbler's son Ernõ) has no means to recover it. The war as a malevolent backdrop to the students' desperate game makes their plight vivid, but the characters themselves are less so. By the time Márai's moody, uneven narration gives way to the students' long-winded confessions, the novel's seams are clearly visible. (Mar.)
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*Starred Review* The third of the novels by this great Hungarian writer (whose fame in his native country reached its apogee in the 1930s, but who had to live out his later years in exile in the U.S., where he died in 1989) joins Embers (2000) and Casanova in Bolzano (2004) in being translated into English for the first time. Marai wrote historical fiction rooted in the politics, manners, and events of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. This particular novel is set specifically during World War I, in a small, provincial Hungarian town; most men in the community are absent at the front. A band of teenage boys, having just finished their schooling, face having to join their fathers somewhere in battle. But the friends themselves constitute their own army; the novel's title indicates their current modus operandi: rebelling against the adult social order in their small corner of the universe. Just as the army at the front functions as a unit, so does the gang of rebels; however, the author is interested in exploring not only their group mentality but also how, as distinct personalities, they operate not in concert. Rendered in sumptuous prose, this is a deeply penetrating novel of psychology. Brad Hooper
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