Kornel Esti

Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, The Adventures of Korn矇l Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked doppleg瓣nger,who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later.

Part Gogol, part Chekhov, and all brilliance, Kosztol獺nyi in his final bookserves up his most magical, radical, and intoxicating work. Here is a novel whichinquires: What if your id (loyally keeping your name) decides to strike out on itsown, cuts a disreputable swath through the world, and then sends home to youall its unpaid bills and ruined maidens? And then: What if you and your alter egodecide to write a book together?