The Loser

In this novel by the author of the acclaimed Case Worker, a Hungarian intellectual reflects on his life before and after his country's bitter transformation to a Communist state. Now, at 55, a failed son, brother, husband, lover, and revolutionary, he finds himself behind the wall of an insane asylum, feeling curiously protected from the world on the other side. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Summary

In this novel by the author of the acclaimed Case Worker, a Hungarian intellectual reflects on his life before and after his country's bitter transformation to a Communist state. Now, at 55, a failed son, brother, husband, lover, and revolutionary, he finds himself behind the wall of an insane asylum, feeling curiously protected from the world on the other side. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Product details

• Authors: George Konrad, George Konrád
• Assisted by: Ivan Sanders (Translation)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.1982
• EAN: 9780156535847
• ISBN: 978-0-15-653584-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 4531 g
• Series: Helen & Kurt Wolff Book; Helen & Kurt Wolff Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Feminist, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, FICTION: World Literature / Hungary