Description
Set in post–World War I Budapest, this dark, naturalistic novel follows Anna Édes, a long-suffering maid whose daily labor is met with cruelty, indifference, and moral emptiness from the bourgeois world that employs her. As political turbulence gathers outside the home, Anna’s private suffering becomes inseparable from the social forces that shape her fate, turning her endurance into a story of psychological intensity and hard-won reckoning. With keen historical insight and a sharply controlled command of language, the novel explores themes of class power, exploitation, and the thin line between survival and revenge. Celebrated as a landmark of twentieth-century Hungarian fiction and recognized by major literary figures for its language and form, it stands as both an indictment of social conditions and a work of genuine tragedy.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions Publishing
Published Apr 25, 2017
260 pages
ISBN: 9780811216623
paperback
Unknown
Published Jan 1, 1976
265 pages
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Details
First Published
1926
Language
eng
Translation
From: hun
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Anna Edes by Dezso Kosztolányi.