Nicola Pressburger Livres

Příběhy italských židovských autorů, bratrů Pressburgerových tvoří vzpomínky na jejich rodnou čtvrť, osmý obvod v Budapešti, na zdejší židovské obyvatele a jejich osudy v době od první světové války až po rok 1956. Příběhy jsou psány s realistickou střídmostí a s citem pro zachycení dobové atmosféry

Das jüdische Leben im achten Bezirk Budapests ist mittlerweile nahezu erloschen - und damit eine Geschichte und Kultur, deren wenige Überlebende heute über die ganze Welt verstreut sind. Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts hatten sich Tausende von Juden und Zigeunern rund um den Teleki-Platz angesiedelt, und Trödler, Schankwirte, Gänseverkäufer und kleine Gauner schufen ein nicht unbedeutendes Geschäftszentrum. In den vierziger Jahren gerieten seine Bewohner in den Strudel der geschichtlichen Ereignisse. Nachdem ein Teil von ihnen die Verfolgung durch die Nationalsozialisten überlebt hatte, beschnitt kurze Zeit später das neue kommunistische System die Lebensbasis der Menschen des achten Bezirks: den Kleinhandel und das Gewerbe. Ironisch und leidenschaftlich lassen die Autoren, die 1956 als Achtzehnjährige ihre Heimat verließen, das Budapest der vierziger und fünfziger Jahre noch einmal aufleben. Leise, schlicht, ohne Pathos und Larmoyanz sind Giorgio und Nicola Pressburger der Geschichte ihrer Vorfahren nachgegangen.

Che significato può avere la parola "avventura"? Il quotidiano Avvenire lo ha chiesto a venticinque tra i più importanti scrittori italiani di ognuno ha risposto scrivendo una storia in cui racconta la sua "idea" di avventura, sia nell'ottica classica del fortunato genere letterario, sia in quella di una dimensione più ampia, quella dell'avventura umana. Ne è nata, in collaborazione con l'Editrice AVE, questa "naturale" antologia in cui si confrontano scritture e stili diversi, e soprattutto tante idee per definire cos'è oggi l' scoperta di mondi e paesaggi lontani o fantascientifici; questione di memoria e ritorno all'età dell'oro dell'infanzia; scandaglio di percorsi metafisici o di sguardi interiori; lettura in chiave metaforica della realtà, con particolare attenzione alla figura del migrante, oltre alla rilettura di testi della classicità. Ne emerge un paesaggio vario con tanti luoghi visti o sognati, tante voci e tanti personaggi, ognuno alle prese con la propria avventura. Le storie sono Affinati, Arslan, Bianchi, Bosio, Buticchi, Cardini, Cavina, Conte, D'Alessandro, D'Avenia, Ferrero, Lupo, Mannuzzu, Milani, Missiroli, Montaldi, Morazzoni, Mussapi, Nigro, Parazzoli, Pardini, Pressburger, Veladiano, Zaccuri, Zocchi.

The Esterházys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of the arts, revered, respected, and occasionally feared by their contemporaries, their story is as complex as the history of Hungary itself. Celestial Harmonies is the intricate chronicle of this remarkable family, a saga spanning seven centuries of epic conquest, tragedy, triumph, and near annihilation. Told by Péter Esterházy, a scion of this populous clan, Celestial Harmonies is dazzling in scope and profound in implication. It is fiction at its most awe-inspiring. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, this novel, translated by Hugh Rorrison with an introduction by Helen Chambers, follows the life of young Effi Briest. Married to the austere Baron von Innstetten, a civil servant twice her age, Effi feels isolated and bored. Seeking comfort, she engages in a brief affair with the married Major Crampas, a decision that later haunts her with fatal consequences. Through taut, ironic prose, the author explores a world where sexuality and the desire for enjoyment are suppressed by societal pretenses and obligations. This work is a humane, unsentimental portrait of a woman caught between her duties as a wife and mother and her own heart's instincts. Rorrison's modern translation is complemented by Chambers' introduction, which draws parallels between Effi and other literary heroines like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina. The author, a notable German novelist and political reporter, is also known for his ironic critique of middle-class hypocrisy in another work. If you appreciate this novel, you might also enjoy Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, available in Penguin Classics. 'I have been haunted by it ... as I am by those novels that seem to do more than they say,' remarks Hermione Lee in the Sunday Times.