by Ferenc Karinthy · Zulma · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9791038700390
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«Epépé» is the novel by Ferenc Karinthy, published by Zulma in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Budaï, a distinguished linguist, travels to a conference in Helsinki; he falls asleep on the plane and wakes up in an unknown, labyrinthine city where a language is spoken that even an expert polyglot like him cannot decipher. Trapped in an absurd nightmare, he desperately seeks his way home while total lack of communication becomes a satire on modern alienation and the power of language.
Originally published in 1970; this French edition, translated by Judith and Pierre Karinthy, includes a foreword by Emmanuel Carrère. Nominated for the Best Translated Book Award in 2009.
For readers of literary fiction, dystopias, and satires about language and the failure to communicate.
Ferenc Karinthy was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator, as well as a water polo champion. He authored more than a dozen novels. His father was the writer and journalist Frigyes Karinthy. His mother, the psychiatrist Aranka Böhm, was killed in 1944 in Auschwitz.
