The Memory of the Esterházys
The Memory of the Esterházys
This chapter focuses on the work of Hungarian novelist and essayist Péter Esterházy. In 2000 he published Celestial Harmonies (Harmonia Caelestis), a novel he had been working on for almost 10 years. Celestial Harmonies consists of two “books.” Book I is a lively chronicle of the Esterházy family. Book II is a monument to Péter's father, Mátyás Esterházy. The chapter then describes Revised Edition, which Esterházy wrote after discovering that his father worked as an informant when prominent intellectuals, politicians, artists and members of the former aristocracy were being imprisoned or executed in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution. The discovery of his father's treachery changed and irreparably harmed some of Péter's most precious memories.
Keywords: memory, Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies, Mátyás Esterházy, Revised Edition
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