The Resource Yesterday, Ágota Kristóf, (electronic resource)
Yesterday, Ágota Kristóf, (electronic resource)
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The item Yesterday, Ágota Kristóf, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Lane Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Yesterday, Ágota Kristóf, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Lane Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Ágota Kristóf packs volumes into this elegant shape-shifting novella. It's simultaneously a sly exploration of storytelling and a powerful narrative about immigration and the pitfalls of starting over in a new country. Yesterday is a necessary and uncannily timely work by one of the unsung geniuses of contemporary literature. -- Jeff Jackson, author of Destroy All Monsters and Mira Corpora In spare, elegant prose, this modern novella recounts a troubled young man's flight from a judgmental village. Tobias, the illegitimate son of a prostitute and the local schoolmaster, finds peace with a factory job in the comfortable anonymity of a city. But his fragile respite is shattered by the appearance of Caroline, his boyhood love, who materializes with a husband and child in tow. This Dover edition marks Yesterday 's first U.S. publication. Originally written in French by Hungarian author Ágota Kristóf, this haunting exploration of dislocation, the search for love and belonging, and life as an emigrant continues to resonate today. "Offers a lucid, poignant narrative of the struggle to find meaning in a world of 'unbearable waiting and . . inexpressible silence.'" -- Publishers Weekly "Many of Kristóf's stark vignettes, reported in unflinching detail ... have a cool, disturbing power -- part documentary-like, part surreal -- that is fierce and distinctive." -- Kirkus Reviews "Ágota Kristóf tackles the theme of the double and the irreparable damage caused by severance from one's roots with a writing of rare sobriety and a spareness which, avoiding all superfluous sentimentality, goes right to the heart." -- Marie Claire "Kristóf -- most brilliant when she is blackest -- plots a denouement that lies on the bleaker side of black. Read it, shudder, and utter thanks." -- Scotland on Sunday"
- Language
-
- eng
- fre
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (112 p.)
- Isbn
- 9780486844114
- Label
- Yesterday
- Title
- Yesterday
- Statement of responsibility
- Ágota Kristóf
- Language
-
- eng
- fre
- eng
- Summary
- Ágota Kristóf packs volumes into this elegant shape-shifting novella. It's simultaneously a sly exploration of storytelling and a powerful narrative about immigration and the pitfalls of starting over in a new country. Yesterday is a necessary and uncannily timely work by one of the unsung geniuses of contemporary literature. -- Jeff Jackson, author of Destroy All Monsters and Mira Corpora In spare, elegant prose, this modern novella recounts a troubled young man's flight from a judgmental village. Tobias, the illegitimate son of a prostitute and the local schoolmaster, finds peace with a factory job in the comfortable anonymity of a city. But his fragile respite is shattered by the appearance of Caroline, his boyhood love, who materializes with a husband and child in tow. This Dover edition marks Yesterday 's first U.S. publication. Originally written in French by Hungarian author Ágota Kristóf, this haunting exploration of dislocation, the search for love and belonging, and life as an emigrant continues to resonate today. "Offers a lucid, poignant narrative of the struggle to find meaning in a world of 'unbearable waiting and . . inexpressible silence.'" -- Publishers Weekly "Many of Kristóf's stark vignettes, reported in unflinching detail ... have a cool, disturbing power -- part documentary-like, part surreal -- that is fierce and distinctive." -- Kirkus Reviews "Ágota Kristóf tackles the theme of the double and the irreparable damage caused by severance from one's roots with a writing of rare sobriety and a spareness which, avoiding all superfluous sentimentality, goes right to the heart." -- Marie Claire "Kristóf -- most brilliant when she is blackest -- plots a denouement that lies on the bleaker side of black. Read it, shudder, and utter thanks." -- Scotland on Sunday"
- Cataloging source
- CtWfDGI
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kristof, Agota
- Dewey number
- 843/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PQ2671.R55
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Watson, David
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Adultery
- Factories
- Rural-urban migration
- Label
- Yesterday, Ágota Kristóf, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Control code
- frd00032023
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (112 p.)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access limited to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780486844114
- Isbn Type
- (epub)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Other control number
- 9780486844114
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Yesterday, Ágota Kristóf, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Control code
- frd00032023
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (112 p.)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access limited to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780486844114
- Isbn Type
- (epub)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Other control number
- 9780486844114
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
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