The door
by Szabó, Magda, MARTA; KOMLOSI FERENCI , and Chantal Philippe
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"The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship with Hungary's Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda's housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda's household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love--at least until Magda's long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. Len Rix's prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer"--
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Women authors, Domestics, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Hungary, fiction, Authors, fiction, Household employees, Politics and government, Housekeepers, Women, Family secrets, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Psychological, Literary, War & Military, Psychological, Littérature hongroise, Traductions françaises, Social conditionsPlaces
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The door: a novel
1994, East European Monographs, Distributed by Columbia University Press
in English
0880333049 9780880333047
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The Door (Az Ajto, 1987) by Magda Szabo is a strong novel about the growing relationship between two women - Magda, a writer, and Emerence, her housekeeper - in the panorama of twentieth century Hungary. Emerence chooses to work for Magda, and a force of literature encounters a force of nature. Emerence truly has the strength of ten because her heart is pure. But Emerence has secrets - many secrets. Gradually Magda pries open the doors of Emerence's past. What she finds there is horrifying and astounding.
Yet there is genuine humor, too, as the very different women interact with each other and with the dog they adopt.
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