{"product_id":"trois-anges-me-surveillent-les-aveux-dun-roman-uniform-title-termelesi-regeny-kisssregeny-francais","title":"Trois Anges Me Surveillent: Les Aveux D'un Roman \/ Uniform Title: Termelési-Regény (Kisssregény)\u003e Français","description":"\u003cp\u003eParis: Gallimard, 1989. First French Edition. iv, 443 pages: illustrations; 22 cm. Near fine(-). Paperback. ISBN: 2070715434; 9782070715435\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn French. Translated from the Hungarian original. Fiction. The first French rendering of Esterházy's breakthrough novel, the book that made him the central figure of Hungarian postmodernism and effectively ended his parallel career as a mathematician and systems engineer. Its target is the termelési regény itself — the \"production novel,\" the mandated Stalinist genre of plan-fulfillment, exemplary workers, and factory heroics — which Part I hollows out from within as a numbered, quasi-mathematically ordered burlesque of office life and bureaucratic language, characters reduced to initials, the ideological idiom left running on empty. Part II, nominally the footnotes to Part I, swells into an autonomous diary-novel of roughly equal length, recording the household of \"the master\" and his amanuensis in a comic transposition of Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe: family scenes, football, the dispossession of the author's own aristocratic line after 1945, and the small accommodations of late-Kádár Hungary, the whole saturated with unmarked citation and pastiche — Ottlik, Musil, the Hungarian classics — in the borrowing-as-method that became Esterházy's signature and, in a censored literary culture, his tactic. The two halves are meant to be read against each other, so the apparatus becomes the novel and the novel the pretext, which is what the French subtitle's aveux points to; the title itself is the translators' invention with no counterpart in the Hungarian, a fact worth an added note in any record. Járfás and Képès manage a text that is largely untranslatable in principle — its comedy lives in the collision of registers and in the deadpan reuse of dead political speech — and Szávai, the leading French-language interpreter of Hungarian letters, supplies the framing a foreign reader needs. With no complete English edition to date, this remains a principal point of access to the novel for Western readers, and belongs in collections supporting Hungarian and Central European literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and the literature of state socialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubjects: Esterházy, Péter, 1950–2016 — Translations into French. Hungarian fiction — 20th century — Translations into French. Experimental fiction, Hungarian. Socialist realism in literature — Parody. Hungary — Social life and customs — 1945–1989 — Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSources: Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia — Esterházy bibliography · Gallimard catalogue · Decitre record · Nyelvkönyvbolt listing (Termelési-regény in French)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Esterházy, Péter, 1950- Járfás, Agnès, Trad. Képès Sophie, Trad. Szávai, János, Préf.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48363789582594,"sku":"106728","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/106728.jpg?v=1787340771","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/trois-anges-me-surveillent-les-aveux-dun-roman-uniform-title-termelesi-regeny-kisssregeny-francais","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}