The Door Author:Magda Szabo, Stefan Draughon (Translator) This 1987 Hungarian novel in the modernist tradition combines emotionality and literary quality in the story of two women, a writer and her housekeeper. 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-agai... more »n 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.
First published with the title Az Ajtó, by Európa Kõnyvkiadó, translated from the Hungarian, Hungarian spelling of author's name is Magda Szabó. This version has translation and drawings by Stefan Draughon.
East European monographs, no. 407, distributed by Columbia University Press« less