A01=Ferenc Karinthy
absurdity
adaptation
alienation
anxiety
Author_Ferenc Karinthy
captivity
Category=FBA
claustrophobia
communication
confusion
culture
despair
disorientation
displacement
entrapment
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estrangement
exile
fear
foreignness
hallucination
helplessness
hopelessness
identity
interpretation
introspection
isolation
Language
linguist
longing
meaning
miscommunication
misunderstanding
mystery
paranoia
silence
society
solitude
strangeness
survival
tension
translation
uncertainty
unfamiliarity
Product details
- ISBN 9781846590344
- Weight: 245g
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2008
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understand a word anyone says. As one claustrophobic day follows another, he wonders why no one has found him yet, whether his wife has given him up for dead, and how he'll get by in this society that looks so familiar, yet is so strange. In a vision of hell, unlike any previously imagined, Budai must learn to survive in a world where words and meaning are unconnected. This is a suspenseful and haunting Hungarian classic.
Ferenc Karinthy was born in Budapest in 1921. He obtained a PhD in linguistics, and went on to be a translator and editor, as well as an award-winning novelist, playwright, journalist and water polo champion. He wrote over a dozen novels. This is the first novel to be translated into English.
