This novel maps out the mind and emotions of Captain Storr as he focuses on a crucial question - is his young wife Lizzie unfaithful or not? But for every scenario that suggests infidelity, there are equally deceptive and valid viewpoints refuting such suggestions. Milan Fust, a schoolmaster, writer and innovative poet, was born in Hungary in 1888. "The Story of my Wife" has been published in more than half a dozen European languages. In 1967, at the age of 79 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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This novel maps out the mind and emotions of Captain Storr as he focuses on a crucial question - is his young wife Lizzie unfaithful or not? But for every scenario that suggests infidelity, there are equally deceptive and valid viewpoints refuting such suggestions. Milan Fust, a schoolmaster, writer and innovative poet, was born in Hungary in 1888. "The Story of my Wife" has been published in more than half a dozen European languages. In 1967, at the age of 79 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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New York. 1987. PAJ Publications. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 155554018x. Translated from the Hungarian by Ivan Sanders. Preface by George Konrad. 250 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Adriane Stark. keywords: Literature Translated Hungary Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Milan Füst's humorous portrait of Captain Störr and his unpredictable wife Lizzy is bout love and marriage and flirtation and illusion. In this confessional novel that takes place in Paris and in London, a middle-aged Dutch seaman makes his life intolerably uneasy through his obsessive jealousy. His extraordinary monologue is an endless oscillation between conceit and shame, swagger and despair. The Captain is an ironic master of self-delusion. The Story of My Wife is a rare Hungarian novel that has nothing to do with Hungary. Though written during World War II, the novel creates its own fantasy world around a hero and the unhurried contradictions of his wildest imaginings. Through the purposeful ambiguities and insinuations of the novel's prose style, the reader is easily drawn into the author's playful aura of emotional zigzagging. Milan Füst was a master writer of his generation, both praised and criticized for the unconventionality of his prose. The Story of My Wife remains one of the most brilliant and usual Hungarian novels of the century. Had Milan Füst written in French, English or German, he would have received the Nobel Prize long ago, wrote a Parisian critic. Indeed, Füst was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1967, the same year he died. The Story of My Wife has been published in more than a half-dozen European languages. As a novel that lacks any real locale except the imagination of its narrator, a certain gentle airiness and wonderment account for its attachment to no place or time, and yet to all places and peoples. inventory #9845.
