- Gewalt, World War, 1939-1945, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Identitatsfindung
Un premier roman à la charnière de deux imaginaires. "L'Ouest intimiste et l'Est politique" (G. Brisac, "Le Monde", 7 mars 1986, p. 22). Les héros sont des jumeaux qui, comme l'écrit J.-Folch-Ribas dans "La Presse" du 10 mai 1986, opposent la perversité au mal.
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Grave, prestige, bleak and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Ágota Kristóf
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- Piper München Zürich, Minerva, Grove Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- French, German, English, gre
- ISBN
- 9780749390938
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"Ágota Kristóf (Hungarian: Kristóf Ágota; 30 October 1935 – 27 July 2011) was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81gota_Krist%C3%B3f
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