A szív segédigéi

Author: Péter Esterházy
Binding method: hardcover, with protective cover
Publication: 2016
Publisher: Magvető Publishing House
Page number: 72
Weight [g]: 254
Perhaps Péter Esterházy's most personal and universal book is A sív auxiliary verbs. The book of mourning, like that of death, and like that of life. What remains in the past tense. What remains, what remains for us? On the pages inside the black frames, we can first read the story of the loss of a mother from the son's point of view: from the last days to the funeral; then it comes back: the mother mourns her dead child. This will be the closed structure, the contrast of black frames and white sheets, the most open of our existence...