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The Parasite
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Artikel-Nr:
9780857427403
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
14.11.2020
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Ferenc Barnás
Gewicht:
663 g
Format:
236x156x35 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ferenc Barnás is the author of four novels in his native Hungarian. He lives in Jakarta, Indonesia. Paul Olchváry is a Hungarian translator and the publisher of New Europe Books, currently living in Massachusetts.
Marked by powerful and evocative prose, Ferenc Barnás's novel tells the fascinating story of a young man's journey through his strange obsessions towards possible recovery. The unnamed narrator is the parasite, feeding off others' ailments, but he is also a host who attracts people with the most peculiar manias. He confesses, almost amiably, his decadent attraction as a young adolescent to illnesses and hospitals. The real descent into his private, hallucinatory hell begins after his first sexual encounter; he becomes a compulsive masturbator, and then a compulsive fornicator. But to his horror, he realizes that casual sex is not casual at all for him--each one-night stand results in insane jealousy: he imagines previous lovers hovering over him every time he makes love to a woman.