Embers

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty one years Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General s beautiful, long dead wife And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present New Read [ Embers ] Author [ Sándor Márai ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Sandor Marai was born in 1900 in the former Austrian Hungarian Empire at a time when honor to one s country was of the upmost importance A staunch anti fascist following the rise of the iron curtain, Marai was forced to flee his homeland and lived out his remaining days in California First published in 1942 and recovered with his other novels, Embers is fast becoming a modern classic A throwback to a time when royalty living in isolated castles was a common practice in Europe, Embers reveals Sandor Marai was born in 1900 in the former Austrian Hungarian Empire at a time when honor to one s country was o...Beautiful words that form sentences that makes one stop and think A exquisitely written story, very descriptive, one can picture the scenes down to the minutest of detail Friendship, the most expressive definition of a friendship between two men from different backgrounds that I have ever read Betrayal, love, pride and at the last...My fingers were interlocked around my Baba s arm and my head was resting on his shoulders I was stealing a glimpse of his face every now and then, convinced that the lines of exhaustion were going to creep upto his tongue any moment, tendering me an apology to relieve him of our evening chatter for the day However, my apprehensions were misplaced The exhaustion stood defeated in the face of the radiance...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Embers is perfect I just cannot find anything not to like about this book It s a kind of book I have never quite read before It s a simple novel but will definitely stay in my memory for a long time To think that it sat there, gathering dust, in my bookshelves forthan 2 years What a pity if I died without reading this flawlessly engrossing work I only picked this because it is thin and seemed to me like a quick read I was behind by 8 books in my 2011 Reading Challenge here in Goodre Embers is perfect I just cannot find anything not to like about this book It s a kind of book I have never quite read before It s a simple novel but will definitely stay in my memory for a long time To think that it sat there, gathering dust, in my bookshelves forthan 2 years What a pity if I died without reading this flawlessly engrossing work I only picked this because it is thin and seemed to me like a quick read I was behind by 8 books in my 2011 Reading Challenge here in Goodreads last weekend and I thought of catching up Sandor Marai 1900 1989 , a Hungarian novelist and journalist, wrote Embers in Hungarian when he was 42 and already living in San Diego, CA He had to flee Hungary during the Nazi occupation not because he was a Jew but because he was profoundly an anti Fascist Just like Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S Thompson and Richard Brauti... Embers is a tale of heart breaking beauty The kind of beauty which is not apparent right at the onset but which makes its omnipresence felt as you keep turning the pages and reach that state of involvement with the narrative, where you cannot wait to feast your eyes and senses on another delicately structured sentence It lies in the pall of gloom cast by the shadow of some tragedy unspoken of,...Embers presents some of the loveliest, most elegant writing I have encountered this year At its core, however, it is an overlong ramble of a soliloquy that should have been reduced to a stunning short story It s an easy enough read, full of the philosophical queries and conclusions of its aged General about the meaning of life, love, honor, killing, obligation, M M friendship But the guest is permitted only 5 8 lines He can t get a word in edgewise And Krisztina She ha...All that is left in the embers is ash, black ash, with the sheen of a mourning veil of watered silkEmbers is the ideal title to summon up the melancholic decadence that soaks the pages of this intense but short novella Candles burn until they are totally consumed by the flickering nature of their essence, as it happens with life when confronted with its impending mortality Two old men, General Henrik and Kondr d, meet after forty years in a secluded castle in the heart of Hungary, where tAll that is left in the embers is ash, black ash, with the sheen of a mourning veil of watered silkEmbers is the ideal title to sum...We will talk these things through once , try to establish the truth and then go to our deaths, I in this house, you somewhere else My impression of Hungarian authors so far has been that they really know how to write dark and depressing gems Embers is just that, and possibly the saddest and loneliest little book I ve read in a while What s lonelier than an elderly recluse brooding for decades in an isolated castle Familiar themes abound here love, betrayal, regret But it s done in suWe will talk these things through once , try to establish the truth and then go to our deaths, I in this house, you somewhere else My impression of Hungarian authors so far has been...Blah blah blah put on a puffed up high horse pedestal I really hate this book Pseudo and this was happening cause that s how it happens styling itself as meaning of shit you could read on a quote of the day site I HATE books that think telling you this is the same as actually having any meaning You don t get to just say it and tell me you said it, you awful book Please, stop coming into my life if you are one of these books Or it is a greeting card The greeting card is to give to the s Blah blah blah put on a puffed up high horse pedestal I really hate this book Pseudo and this was happening cause that s how it happens styling itself as meaning of shit you could read ...This was a powerful read that pulled my heart along with the narrator Henrik s soul searching dialogue perhaps monologue isappropriate with his best friend and enemy Konrad whom he has not seen for forty one years The story is set in the 1900s in the Austro Hungarian Empire.The speech evokes a past love triangle between the two and Henrik s wife, long dead, and a murder attempt Henrik chose to stay silent about the double betrayal and to live on stoically Konrad chose to escape to the This was a powerful read that pulled my heart along with the narrator Henrik s soul searching dialogue perhaps monologue isappropriate with his best friend and enemy Konrad whom he has not seen for forty one years The story is set in the 1900s in the Austro Hungarian Empire.The speech evokes a past love triangle between the two and Henrik s wife, long dead, and a murder attempt Henrik chose to stay silent about the double betrayal and to live on stoically Konrad chose to escape to the tropics Henrik s wife chose to die Henrik s mordant observations about fidelity and betrayal between intimate man friends, passionate and possessive man and woman relationship, dark human nature like arrogance and cowardice, and the solitude and sorrow of aging are beautifully woven into a web of silky sm...

• English
• 23 September 2018
Sándor Márai
• Paperback
• 214 pages
• 0375707425
• Sándor Márai
• Embers