|
Showing 1 - 1 of
1 matches in All Departments
A novel of growing up a Hungarian in Romania under Communism. In
the novel Story of a Stammer, Gabor Vida asks a fundamental
question: Where does stammering come from? In the process of
answering this question, he discovers that an entire historical
period and an entire world have been stammering, too. Through
Vida's eyes, we see that stammering comprises all the lies
accumulated over time and over generations because nobody had ever
articulated what they felt or thought, nor done what they really
wanted. Nobody, Vida shows, had ever told the truth. Describing
life in the 1970s and '80s under Romanian Communist dictator
Nicolae Ceaucescu's authoritarian regime, Vida writes with
disarming honesty, breaking taboos and chronicling the ways in
which tyranny and exploitation seep into family relationships. The
novel charts the first two decades of a young Hungarian man's life
in Romania, telling a story of coming to terms with a stammer,
loneliness, and an unstimulating environment where religion,
alcoholism, and suicide are the most common escape strategies. A
Bildungsroman, a novel about Transylvania, a chronicle of minority
life, a sociological analysis of cultural identity, and ultimately
a deeply personal account of a historical era, Story of a Stammer
is a major contribution to contemporary Hungarian literature-an
unfailingly serious yet humorously delightful witness to a
turbulent period in recent history.
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.