A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the eve of World War I 
Géza Csáth (pen name of Joszef Brenner) was a writer, playwright, musician, psychiatrist, and physician born in Hungary at the end of the 19th century. One of Sigmund Freud’s earliest followers, he pushed both life and art to radical extremes in an all-consuming—and ultimately fatal—search for the unvarnished truth about the human condition. 
Written with unsparing clarity and reminiscent of the works of Frank Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe for their dark pessimism and gothic imagination, the short stories collected here pierce the veil of the seemingly tranquil, ordinary lives of their protagonist. At times realistic, at times dreamlike, Csáth’s gruesome, harrowing tales reveal the violent and irrational forces lurking just beneath the surface of a society on the verge of the abyss. 
“A memorable volume, Csáth’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

Opium and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Csáth, Géza

Literary

Europa Editions

Tagebuch: 1912-1913

Brinkmann U. Bose

El Nadir Ediciones. 2007. 136 p.Los cuentos de Géza Csáth tienen magia, ácida profundidad y lirismo salvaje. En cada uno de ellos, de modernidad atemporal, se descubren ecos de escritores clásicos y modernos; la crueldad de Agota Kristof, la amarga ironía de Kosztolanyi o la misoginia de Sándor Márai. Su literatura desnuda va más allá de su época para imponer un estilo de forma contundente en fondo y forma. No se puede ir más lejos en los relatos «Padre e hijo», «Matricidio» o «La muerte del mago». Son modélicos. Como manifiesta en «Opio» a Csáth le interesa más una vida intensa que longeva. Se lanza sobre sus personajes como el cirujano trepana en la mesa de operaciones a la búsqueda del tumor escondido en los rincones del alma.

Cuentos que acaban mal (Spanish Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

El Nadir Tres S.L.

El diario de Géza Csáth (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Ediciones y Publicaciones El Nadir Tres SL

Az életet nem lehet becsapni: Összegyűjtött színpadi művek (Hungarian Edition)

Magveto

MATRICÍDIO e outros Contos que Acabam Mal: Géza Csáth (Portuguese Edition)

Rivotti, Arnaldo

Independently published

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