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050 00 $aPH3241.E85$bH3713 2004
082 00 $a894/.511334$221
100 1 $aEsterházy, Péter,$d1950-2016.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84185546
240 10 $aHarmonia cælestis.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003044626
245 10 $aCelestial harmonies :$ba novel /$cPéter Esterházy ; translated by Judith Sollosy.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bECCO,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axiii, 846 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $aBook 1: Numbered sentences from the lives of the Esterházy family -- Book 2: Confessions of an Esterházy family.
520 1 $a"Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of the arts, revered, respected, and occasionally feared by their contemporaries, the Esterhazy family was among the greatest and most powerful aristocrats in Hungarian history." "Celestial Harmonies is the chronicle of this remarkable family, a story spanning seven centuries of epic conquest, tragedy, triumph, and near annihilation. Told by Peter Esterhazy, a scion of this populous family, Celestian Harmonies unfolds in two parts, revealing two versions of the Esterhazy story. Book One is a compilation of short passages about the Esterhazy men, sons reflecting on their fathers, from the earliest days of the Hapsburgh Empire to its demise in the early twentieth century and beyond. At one point, the father is seen fighting the Turks and writing psalms, at another he is described as herding geese and feathering his already well-feathered nest. In the nineteenth century, he is caught cavorting with his mistress while looking after matters of state; in the 1940s and 1950s, he is seen helping to organize a number of conspiracies, then reporting them (and himself) to the secret police. Conversely, he is also seen apprehended and tortured by the authorities. The father is a monster and he is an angel, but, above all, he is a man in search of his God." "Book Two chronicles the final chapter in the life of the Esterhazy family, from the short Communist take over of 1919 to World War Two and its aftermath, when Hungary fell to Soviet rule and the Esterhazys succumbed to dispossession, resettlement, and impoverishment. Here, Peter Esterhazy reveals the story of his immediate family, especially his father, Matyas Esterhazy, who was born into great wealth and privilege in 1919. He worked as a field hand and parquet floor layer under the hard-line Communists, then, later on, as a translator making a meager living. It is a biography of a man who, despite the brutal tides of history, never relinquished the humanist values that were his birthright, and that were as inseparable from him as his illustrious name and heritage."--BOOK JACKET.
600 30 $aEsterházy family$vFiction.
651 0 $aHungary$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105721
700 1 $aSollosy, Judith.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94038645
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc042/2003053139.html
852 00 $bglx$hPH3241.E85$iH3713 2004