Back from Troy,the'divine'Helen looks with fresh eyes at her foul-mouthed hero-husband; a girl in a mountain village seeks reassurance about her arranged marriage; a drunken mandarin invites the devil to tea; and a German princess discovers that people actually drink goat's milk. These delightful tales exhibit Bánffy's customary blend of high seriousness and subtle humour,his rich imagination and his remarkably wide-ranging sympathies. Appearing in English for the first time,in finely nuanced translations by the prize-winning Len Rix,The Enchanted Night furthers the writer's growing reputation as one of the most compelling European writers of the twentieth century.
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782275923Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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The Tolstoy of Transylvania... Bánffy's trilogy is just about as good as any fiction I have ever readThe elegiac wisdom of his writing makes him one of those people whose life you wish could have ended in something other than calamity... a great storytellerA genuine case of a rediscovered classic. The force of Bánffy's enthusiasm produces an effect rather like that of the best Trollope novels,but coming from a past world that now seems excitingly exoticBánffy's masterpiece resembles Proust,(yet) he writes with all the psychological acumen of DostoevskyIf you've not yet read Bánffy,you are to be envied
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