by Magda Szabo · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478711796
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«La porta» is the contemporary fiction novel by Magda Szabó, published by La Magrana in paperback (272 pages, in Catalan).
In Hungary in the 1950s, a writer recalls her long relationship with Emerence, a surly and authoritarian old woman who works as a housekeeper in her home. The cultural and social distance between them does not prevent the narrator from discovering her fears, her quirks and the secret she hides behind her door, forbidden to others.
The original work, Az ajtó, was published in 1987; the Catalan edition is from 2005 and is part of the Otros La Magrana collection (volume 178). Translation by Eloi Castello Gassol.
For readers of literary fiction, Hungarian narrative and stories of psychological introspection.
Magda Szabó was a Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the Digital Literary Academy, an online digital repository of Hungarian literature. She is the most translated Hungarian author, with publications in 42 countries and over 30 languages.
