The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube)

"Esterhazy's trade-mark style, characterized by the overabundance of plays-on-words, puns, and an almost painstakingly high level of ironic reflexivity, makes his work hardly translatable into any foreign language. This is one of the reasons Richard Aczel's remarkably sensitive translation of THE GLANCE OF COUNTESS HAHN-HAHN can be appreciated by any English-speaking reader, and not only those with an interest in Hungarian literature...Richard Aczel's translation succeeds in rendering the idiosyncratic style of the original without resorting to a convoluted English...Persistent readers will be rewarded...as they ill be granted a 'glance' into the multifarious culture and history of Eastern/Central Europe as well as the working of one of the brightest literary minds of the region."Peter Esterhazy is the author of 'The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube)', published 1999 under ISBN 9780810117600 and ISBN 0810117606.