Metropole

“A Central European classic to be discovered and relished.”—Eva Hoffman “A stunning novel. Funny, nightmarish and jubilant.”—Libération "Although it took almost 40 years for Metropole to be translated into English, the book holds up well. In the same way that Kafka becomes relevant again every time you renew your driver's license, Karinthy captures that enduring, horrifying and exhilarating state of being at the mercy of an unfamiliar land." — Jessa Crispin for NPR “I don’t know when I’ve read a more perfect novel-a dynamically helpless hero (in the line of Kafka), and a gorgeous spiral of action, nothing spare, nothing wrong, inventive and without artifice.”—Michael Hoffman in TLS Books of the Year 2009 Budai finds himself in a strange city where he can’t understand a word anyone says. One claustrophobic day blurs into another as he desperately struggles to survive in this vastly overpopulated metropolis where there are as many languages as there are people. ...

Author: Karinthy Ferenc
Year of publication: 2008
Translator: Szirtes George
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 273
Reading time: 4 h. 33 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
Requests: read online, download without registration, e-book