Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0913896284 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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If the Triune Monarchy never existed, it should have. I had the 1973 "Enquiries of Dr. Eszterhazy". The stories were gems but the paper was lousy; the book crumbled away years ago. I had despaired of ever again reading them, until this marvelous book appeared. It not only replaces the "Enquiries", it extends them, with 5 more stories and an Afterword. The additional stories are from Eszterhazy's youth and the tone is a little different from the later ones; Davidson seems not to have decided yet just what role the supernatural will play in Eszterhazy's career. These stories are funny, tragic, moving, and sometimes deep. I advise all lovers of story to. The unrivaled master of historical myth A Customer Long before the words "magical realism" ever cropped up in literary criticism, Avram Davidson was quietly creating a spectacular body of erudite, eloquent, evocative history-as-myth. The Dr. Eszterhazy stories, along with the Vergil novels and "Adventures in Unhistory", are the pinnacle of his accomplishment.No one has ever had a better ear for dialect, a better sense of the self-importance of minor officials, a better notion of how Balkan politics play out in the back-alleys of minor capitals. And certainly no one has ever had such a perfect (and reverent) sense of the ridiculous, when it comes t. Imagine if phrenology, alchemy, etc., were real sciences Dean L. Surkin Avram Davidson imagines a world where science is slightly skewed: alchemy works, phrenology (studying the bumps on a skull to determine personality) is a real science, etc. The author takes each "scientific" dead end of the late 19th century (and earlier centuries) and builds witty, cohesive stories around each one. His characters are great and all his plots neatly resolve. The more you know about European history, the more fun you'll get out of his books (Mr. Davidson is, I believe, a professor of an arcane branch of European history).
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NB: Read the stories in the order written, beginning with "Polly Charms", and turning back to read the later stories at the front. . Enquire with Doctor Eszterhazy into curious matters--- the lurley; the old woman who lived with a bear; gingerbread men; dancing goats; and more. This invaluable collection of Avram Davidson's resonant, witty short stories describes some incidents in the career of many-times-Doctor Engelbert Eszterhazy, loyal subject of the Triune Monarchy of Scythia- Pannonia-Transbalkania, located in a nineteenth-century Europe whose political landscape will be, after a little reflection, familiar to most fantasy readers