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portada Temptation
Type
Physical Book
Translated by
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
688
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.3 x 13.2 x 3.8 cm
Weight
0.73 kg.
ISBN13
9781681374376

Temptation

János Székely (Author) · Mark Baczoni (Translated by) · New York Review of Books · Paperback

Temptation - János Székely

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Synopsis "Temptation "

A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel. Temptation is a rediscovered masterwork of twentieth-century fiction, a Dickensian tale of a young man coming of age in Budapest between the wars. Illegitimate and unwanted, Béla is packed off to the country to be looked after by a peasant woman the moment he is born. She starves and bullies him, and keeps him out of school. He does his best to hold his own, and eventually his mother brings him back to live with her in the city. In thrall to his feckless father, Mishka, and living in a crowded tenement, she works her fingers to the bone, while Béla shares a room with a hardworking prostitute. Finally, Béla secures a job in a fancy hotel. Though exhausted by endless work, he is fascinated by the upper-crust world that his new job exposes him to; soon he is embroiled with a rich, damaged, and dangerous woman. The atmosphere of Budapest is increasingly poisoned by the appeal of fascism, while Béla grows ever more aware of how power and money keep down the working classes. In the end, with all the odds still against him, he musters the resolve to set sail for a new future.
János Székely
  (Author)
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János Székely (Budapest, 1901), escritor y guionista húngaro, nació en el seno de una familia humilde. La temprana muerte de su padre le obligó, desde muy joven, a ayudar a su madre a sostener la economía familiar. A los dieciocho años emigró a Berlín huyendo

de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y allí escribió numerosos guiones para películas mudas interpretadas por estrellas del cine tan famosas como Brigitte Helm, Willy Fritsch, Marlene Dietrich y Emil Jannings. En 1934, Ernst Lubitsch le invitó a trabajar en Hollywood, y en 1938 se trasladó a Estados Unidos. En 1940 recibió un Oscar por el guion de Levántate, mi amor, de Mitchell Leisen, protagonizada por Claudette Colbert y Ray Milland. Esa misma década inició su carrera como novelista y terminó su primera obra, Los infortunios de Svoboda, una alegoría de la invasión nazi ambientada en un pequeño pueblo checoslovaco. En 1949 publicó su obra maestra, la novela autobiográfica Tentación (Lumen, 2007, 2021). Durante la era McCarthy, Székely se vio obligado a abandonar Estados Unidos, y se mudó con su familia a México; en 1957 regresó a Berlín, donde trabajó en un estudio de cine y falleció en 1958
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