Name: Temptation
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Author: János Székely
ISBN: 9781782275480

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Physical Book

Author

János Székely

Publisher

Pushkin Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

688

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781782275480

Temptation

János Székely (Author) · Pushkin Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Temptation "

Bela has never had much luck. His mother abandoned him at birth to go to work in Budapest, leaving him in the care of the dubious 'Aunt Rozika', a former prostitute who now runs a foster home with equal parts hauteur and cruelty. Victimised and almost starved by his guardian, Bela must fight for everything, from scraps of the other boys' food to the right to go to school. At fourteen he is caught trying to steal a pair of shoes; his mother is called and she reluctantly takes him with her to Budapest. Once in the capital Bela manages to secure a position at a grand old hotel, and it is here that a more privileged lifestyle seems to extend a hand to him. Operating the lift, Bela encounters people from across Hungarian society and beyond, including the beautiful daughter of an American businessman and a passionate revolutionary. But his new lifestyle offers both pleasures and perils, and Bela must find a way to forge his own life from the divergent influences that surround him. A picaresque classic with a rich vein of bawdy humour, Temptation is an under-appreciated masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction. Rich, varied and endlessly entertaining, the novel creates a stunning panorama of Hungarian society through the travails of its singularly charming hero.

János Székely

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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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