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by Geza Csath| 4.5| English

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“Csath’s short stories are and extraordinary, uneasy mixture of sentimentality, sadism, and sexual repressions – nasty tales, not dissimilar to some of the fictions of the contemporary United States and United Kingdom, both countries in which the collective dream has, latterly, also broken down under the impact of too much reality. During Csath’s lifetime Sigmund Freud, th “Csath’s short stories are and extraordinary, uneasy mixture of sentimentality, sadism, and sexual repressions – nasty tales, not dissimilar to some of the fictions of the contemporary United States and United Kingdom, both countries in which the collective dream has, latterly, also broken down under the impact of too much reality. During Csath’s lifetime Sigmund Freud, the scrutineer of dreams, built up the enormous hypothesis of the unconscious in Vienna, the greatest city of the empire, which encompassed Hungary, Csath’s homeland, more and more uneasy. It is difficult to read Csath, a specialist in ‘nervous disorders’ himself, without thinking of Freud’s analysis of the subtext of human experience…. [An] opium addict and therefore a specialist in dreams, [Csath] wrote short stories comfortless as bad dreams, sometimes decorating them languorously with art-nouveau impedimenta of lilies, lotuses, and sulphurous magic, at other times relating them in the cool, neutral language of the case-book. He was also a doctor. No real contradiction here; the medical profession not only offers a free access to narcotics but often, since it involves considerable exposure to human suffering, implicity invites their use” – From the Introduction by Angela Carter “A memorable volume, Csath’s depiction of the collapse of Central Europe, by way of magnification of the collapse of the individual, is uncannily prophetic.” – Joyce Carol Oates, The New Republic. Originally published under the title The Magician’s Garden and Other Stories. [128]…more

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Author:Geza Csath
ISBN:9780140066890
Language:English
File Size:4.5
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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