She Loves Me (Signed First U.S. Edition)

Peter Esterhazy (author); Judith Sollosy (translator)

ISBN 10: 0810115573 / ISBN 13: 9780810115576

Published by Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1997

About this Item

First printing of the first U.S. edition. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean copy with price ($26.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Esterhazy was a prominent contributor to postwar literature. This copy has been SIGNED and dated by Esterhazy on the title page (as pictured). Fiction-E.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-2484

Bibliographic Details

• Title: She Loves Me (Signed First U.S. Edition)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Evanston
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810115573
• ISBN 13: 9780810115576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Hungarian Literature

About this title

Synopsis

She Loves Me is Peter Esterhazy's paean to women: beautiful and ugly, kind and nasty, fat and bony, monogamous and promiscuous, seductive, negative, rebellious, and voracious.
In ninety-seven short chapters this seductive novel contemplates love and desire and sex and hate, all from the point of view of a manly narrator who considers himself a great and successful lover, a womanizer, a man who may - or may not - be in love with all of the women of the world.
Intelligent and funny, this book is a great declaration of love and of contempt, and a philosophical exploration of the many postures and pretenses of eros. With his characteristic verbal pyrotechnics, the serenely jaded Esterhazy proves that there will always be another romance, and that love and hate spring from the same inexhaustible font.

About the Author

Peter Esterhazy (born 14 April 1950 in Budapest) is one of the most widely known contemporary Hungarian writers. His books are considered to be significant contributions to postwar literature. He studied mathematics at ELTE university in Budapest from 1969 to 1974; his first writings were published in literary journals in 1974. He worked as a mathematician from 1974 to 1978, and he became a freelance writer in 1978.