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Attila Bartis. Tranquility.(Book review)
Attila Bartis. Tranquility. Trans. Imre Goldstein. Archipelago Books, 2008. 292 pp. Paper: $15.00.
Andor Weer lives with his mother, Rebeka, a well-regarded stage actress who nearly twenty years before had been informed by the communist authorities that she would no longer play leading roles after her virtuoso daughter, Judit, Andor's twin, fled the country with little more than her violin. Rebeka never leaves her Budapest apartment again, becoming a parasitical nuisance to her strangely conflicted son. Andor pretends to write letters to Judit--presumably traveling the world giving recitals--to satisfy his mother, who pretends to write back. Their deceitful, nagging misalliance launches a series of abrupt, highly charged conjunctions of live situations and elaborate fantasies (called dreams or thoughts) through which Andor elaborates his increasing disaffection as the Iron Curtain collapses around him. Andor has also been scribbling stories on scraps of paper, hardly taking them ...
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