Celestial Harmonies
A Hungary, Cultural, Fiction book. Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century. Pter Esterhzy, Celestial Harmonies //
Harmonia Caelestis is the product of a decade of labour: a monumental, part-autobiographical family history. If Helping Verbs of the Heart was an homage to his mother, then this is a memorial to his father. It is actually two works in one. Book 1, "Numbered Sentences from the Life of the Esterházy Family", comprises 371 paragraphs, some elusively succinct, others pages long, that amount to a gloriously kaleidoscopic romp through the centuries that lie behind this European dynasty....
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- Pages: 841 pages
- ISBN: 9780007141470 / 7141475
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Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century. Pter Esterhzy, Celestial Harmonies // Mi a klnbsg desapm s az Isten kzt? A klnbsg jl lthat: Isten mindentt ott van, ezzel szemben desapm is mindentt ott van, csak itt nincs. Pter Esterhzy, Celestial Harmonies // History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain. Pter Esterhzy, Celestial Harmonies //
Peter Esterhazy's "Celestial Harmonies" is a difficult book for me to rate. I went into it knowing little to nothing about Hungarian history and nothing at all of the Esterhazy family, which apparently was full of filthy rich landowners until the Communists arrived, eager to take the ostentatious Esterhazys down a peg.The novel tells... My word, that was a chore. 841 pages of literary fanciness, jumpy storytelling, and unsympathetic family issues. I have no idea why this book was written the way it was. I'm not a fan of innovative methods and zany structures. I like a good story I can get my teeth into, and that never happens throughout the length of this book. The... Celestial Harmonies: (1990) All the worlds a stage art and pageantry in the Renaissance and baroque.Especially in its first part, reading Celestial Harmonies is like reading snippets from the life of demi-gods up there in Mount Olympus. The first person fragmented narrative goes anywhere you dont know what the narrator will tell you...
