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Sandor Marai is truly a wonderful writer. The translator, George Szertes has made Marai's books a pleasure to read.
Portraits of a Marriage is tale of 3 parts and an epilogue, describing a marriage and Hungary between, during and after the Wars. There are 4 main characters who each have a section that is told from their own point of view. ...more
Portraits of a Marriage is tale of 3 parts and an epilogue, describing a marriage and Hungary between, during and after the Wars. There are 4 main characters who each have a section that is told from their own point of view. ...more
Two failed marriages. One husband. Two wives. Each reflects on the collapse of a union in which culture, class, expectations, disparate needs, and irreconcilable concepts of love came into play. Ilonka, a woman who dotes on her husband Peter, and as close to a “perfect” wife as can be, finds herself married to a man who, contrary to her belief that every human being has a need to be loved, feels that he has no “great need to be loved,” that there is a type of man who can “get on fine without it.
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Feb 19, 2013
Luis
marked it as to-read
