En esta magistral novela, S ndor M rai plantea la b squeda de la verdad como fuerza liberadora, como soporte tico imprescindible para sobrellevar el peso de una vida. La exactitud de su prosa, unida a la vigencia de sus propuestas morales, lo sit a entre los grandes escritores europeos del siglo XX.
Un peque o castillo de caza en Hungr a, al pie de los C rpatos, donde alguna vez se celebraron fastuosas veladas y la m sica de Chopin inundaba los elegantes salones decorados al estilo franc s, ha cambiado radicalmente de aspecto. El esplendor de anta o se ha desvanecido, todo anuncia el final de una poca. En ese escenario cargado de vivencias, dos hombres se citan para cenar tras cuarenta a os sin verse. De j venes hab an sido amigos inseparables, pero luego sus caminos se bifurcaron: uno se march a Extremo Oriente y el otro, en cambio, permaneci hasta hoy en su propiedad. Sin embargo, ambos han vivido a la espera de este momento, pues entre ellos se interpone un secreto de una fuerza singular. Todo converge en un duelo sin armas, aunque tal vez mucho m s cruel, cuyo punto en com n es el recuerdo imborrable de una mujer. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONOriginally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs. In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General's beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest--a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever. Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present
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