Count Esterházy in Lima (1)
José Ignacio López Soria
Péter Esterházy
De Vargas Llosa recently said is "one of the most interesting and original writers of our time, and his ambitious building a heavenly Harmony masterpiece. "Who is this writer Vargas Llosa is expressed as praised and the Peruvian Chamber of Books brings the distant Hungary to participate in the International Book Fair?.
most ancient descendant of the Hungarian nobility, Péter Esterházy was born in 1950 in Budapest, where the goods had already been Esterházy confiscados por el gobierno socialista y buena parte de familia expulsada del país. Péter no alcanzó, pues, a gozar ni de las extensas propiedades agrícolas de los Esterházy ni de sus palacios y residencias señoriales, ni se vio beneficiado con la relación privilegiada que sus progenitores habían tenido con el poder político, la jerarquía eclesial y la élite artística e intelectual. Como cualquier hijo de vecino, se educa en una escuela rural y luego se traslada a Budapest para concluir su formación escolar y hacer estudios universitarios de matemáticas en la Universidad de Ciencias Loránd Eötvös de Budapest, precisamente en los años en que Antonio Cisneros y yo enseñábamos en el English Department at the same university.
Their preparation in mathematics allowed him to work at the Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Industry, but not for long. In 1978, with two stories already published (Francis and Pinta, 1976, pirates in waters not papal, 1977), decided to leave the statistical work to devote himself to literature. Shortly after 1979, production appears novel, the first work of Esterhazy to the attention of critics.
But in the decade of 1980 when the literary personality profiles becomes sharper Esterházy: a carefully casual and uninhibited writing ironic always and heretical, which contrasts not only with the author's fine manners in everyday life but with the tradition of Hungarian literature was so prone to the tragic, the intellectualism, the seriousness and patriotism. Characters of Hungarian literature says that no body Esterházy: neck starts them on the shoes. In this time are Little Hungarian Pornography (1984) and auxiliary verbs Heart (1985), two novels that are soon translated into other languages.
In the following decade, 1990-2000, displayed the best known works of Esterházy: The Book of Hrabal (1990), The eye of the Countess Hahn-Hahn (1991), A Women (1995) and, above all heavenly Harmony (2000). In them he takes possession of their status as literary Central to accompany changes in the last decade in these societies, but it does not from facts but from the language, as if seeking the truth painfully through a journey through the darkest areas of twentieth century European history. He is accompanied on this quest, in that stated opposition to the destruction of men by terror and violence, a strong commitment to a resurrection of humanity by grief, remembrance and irony.
None of this means that Esterhazy is a writer in the service of a particular political position. Policy, like most Central European intellectuals, the Hungarian novelist has bitter personal experience. "I grew up, he has said under a dictatorship, as in all dictatorships, politics permeates everything. So I am not a politician, but I say quietly. During the dictatorship, not a politician was a way of doing politics. " Rather than politics, is interested in everyday life (sex, the pleasure of eating, food), the ordinary people (with their anxieties, fears and joys) and historical events, but seen through the fabric of individual biographies and language games.
Esterházy's work is the subject of many awards, translations into various languages, membership of academies, invitations to lectures, film version of one of his novels, etc. These distinctions excel Peace Prize of the German Book, issued in 2004, which places him at the height of the American S. Sontag, the niegeriana Chinua Achebe, the German philosopher J. Habermas and American writers E. Cardinal, O. Peace and M. Vargas Llosa.
Lima
The presence of Péter Esterházy allow us to enjoy his "literary acrobatics, its ability to pass without further illation that language itself, a deep reflection on freedom to a recipe.
Notes (1) Newspaper article
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