by Lajos Zilahy · Ediciones G. P. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401431630
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«El alma se apaga» is the emigration novel by Lajos Zilahy, published by Ediciones G. P. in paperback (335 pages, in Spanish).
A Hungarian emigrant narrates in the first person his life in the United States in the interwar period: the initial uprooting, the discovery of a modern society, his loves and the progressive professional stability. He also evokes his childhood in a traditional environment and wonders whether exile was worth it and what remains of his Hungarian identity.
Original title: «A Lélek kialszik» (1930). Translation by F. Oliver Branchfeld. Libros Reno collection, no. 163.
Lajos Zilahy was a Hungarian novelist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary, he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, in which he was wounded on the Eastern Front – an experience which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners.
