Idegennyelvű kiadások
A városalapító Pesti Szalon, 1992 hungarian |
A városalapító Magvető, 1977 hungarian |
Der Stadtgründer Suhrkamp, 1980 german |
Les Fondateurs Éditions du Seuil, 1979 french |
A városalapító ?, 1999 russian |
Osnivac grada Stubovi kulture, 1991 serbian |
The city builderAuthor(s): Konrád GyörgyTranslator: Ivan Sanders Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press - Eastern European Literature Series Place of publication: Ilinois Year of publication: 2007 ISBN: 978-0151180097 Language: english |
An architect in an unnamed city considers his life, his work, and the many-layered history of the city he and his family— architects all—have contributed to building. In the days after World War II—during which American bombers destroyed much of what his father built—he becomes a Stalinist planner and realizes that the power of the nobility, the wealthy and the bourgeois has been usurped by technocrats. Vanished by those Datejust répliques technocrats into the communist underworld of torture and imprisonment, he is eventually released into a post-Stalinist world and becomes the chief builder in a provincial town.
Told with wit and elegance by one of Hungary’s greatest réplique montres, The City Builder is one of the most important and impassioned books about the indignities of living in—and contributing to—a cruelly depersonalized society.