The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube) - Peter Esterhazy - Books - Northwestern University Press - 9780810117600 - November 30, 1999
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The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube) 1st edition

Peter Esterhazy

The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube) 1st edition

In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Peter Esterhazy blends magic realism and travel narrative to dazzling effect.

Esterhazy's hero is a professional Traveller, commissioned -- like Marco Polo by Kubla Khan -- to undertake a voyage of discovery and to prepare a travelogue about the Danube. Communicating his experiences through terse -- and at times surreal -- telegrams to his employer, the Traveller weaves a rich tapestry of narratives, evoking the dreamlike past and the precarious present of a disappearing world.

Moving from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, Esterhazy takes the reader on a fascinating European journey of the imagination, down the Danube River, through Vienna, Budapest, and beyond the delta where the mighty river empties into the sea. Filled with allusion, fable, fantasy, history, and autobiography, The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube) is Peter Esterhazy at his scintillating, adventurous best.


246 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 30, 1999
ISBN13 9780810117600
Publishers Northwestern University Press
Pages 246
Dimensions 139 × 211 × 19 mm   ·   334 g
Language English  
Contributor Richard Aczel

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