Portraits of a Marriage - ISBN:1400045010

Portraits of a Marriage

Date: 23 May 2011, 02:52

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Three interior monologues stand as a triptych in the latest novel to be translated into English by a Hungarian writer who flourished in the 1930s. With this phenomenal novel, our conviction, based on the Marai novels already translated, including Embers (2001) and The Rebels (2007), is confirmed: he ranks as one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists. The book’s title is apt; the three sections focus on the conditions of one particular marriage: that between a Budapest industrial magnate and his beautiful wife in the deceptively peaceful years between the world wars, when the “world had not been boarded over yet; for a moment everything—Europe, life itself—was bathed in intense light.” In seeking definitions of love, and in excercising his obviously abiding interest in the theme of loneliness in marriage, the author, in a glorious demonstration of psychological acuity, offers his powerful findings from three perspectives: from the husband and from the wife, naturally, but also from the servant girl in the man’s parents’ household who becomes his second wife. The idea that marriage partners keep information about themselves from each other is the outwardly simple, even ordinary, premise upon which the narrative rests; it is the author’s brilliant dissection of that situation that makes this novel so exceptional. The ultimate factor in deciding if the novel works is whether the three segments mesh well enough to give the reader a smoothly integrated whole picture, and Portraits of a Marriage is the last word on the effectiveness of the triple-voice technique.

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