The DoorOne of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" An NYRB Classics Original The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda’s housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda’s household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love—at least until Magda’s long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. Len Rix’s prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 4 |
Section 3 | 20 |
Section 4 | 32 |
Section 5 | 47 |
Section 6 | 57 |
Section 7 | 72 |
Section 8 | 91 |
Section 13 | 149 |
Section 14 | 164 |
Section 15 | 171 |
Section 16 | 186 |
Section 17 | 196 |
Section 18 | 212 |
Section 19 | 227 |
Section 20 | 239 |
Section 9 | 104 |
Section 10 | 115 |
Section 11 | 132 |
Section 12 | 137 |
Section 21 | 247 |
Section 22 | 257 |
Section 23 | 262 |
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