{"id":2290,"date":"2011-03-04T19:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T00:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:32:49","slug":"book-beat-reading-group-march-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2011\/03\/04\/book-beat-reading-group-march-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Beat Reading Group March Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk\/images\/n73\/n366543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"213\" \/><\/em><\/strong> Hungarian author <strong>Dezso Kosztolanyi <\/strong>made his first appearance in our Reading Group with his sly-comic novel <em><strong>Skylark<\/strong>. <\/em>This month we feature <strong>Kosztolanyi&#8217;s<\/strong> final novel,\u00a0<strong><em>Kornel Esti<\/em><\/strong>, a collection of vignettes following the adventures of an unnamed narrator and his roguish alter ego, <em><strong>Kornel Esti<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Increasingly mortified by his alter ego&#8217;s behavior, the friends part, only to reconnect many years later to write a book together.\u00a0 At times tender, wild, funny, and sad, <strong><em>Kornel Esti<\/em><\/strong> is a thoroughly modern work in the vein of Borges and Kafka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If anyone ever truly wanted to write the history of the Hungarian people, the author would certainly take the first sentence of <strong><em>Kornel Esti<\/em><\/strong> as the most wondrous first sentence ever written in the Hungarian language.\u00a0 So simple and so achingly painful, so sad and so sweet, so concise and so bereft of hope.&#8221;\u00a0 Laszlo Krasznahokai<\/p>\n<p>The Book Beat Reading Group will meet <strong>Wednesday, March 30<\/strong> @ <strong>7pm<\/strong> in <strong>Goldfish Teahouse (117 W. 4th St., Royal Oak)<\/strong> in downtown Royal Oak.\u00a0 All are welcome.\u00a0 Books are discounted 15% at <strong>Book Beat<\/strong> (<strong>26010 Greefield Rd., Oak Park, MI\u00a0 (248) 968 1190<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian author Dezso Kosztolanyi made his first appearance in our Reading Group with his sly-comic novel Skylark. This month we feature Kosztolanyi&rsquo;s final novel,&nbsp;Kornel Esti, a collection of vignettes following the adventures of an unnamed narrator and his roguish alter ego, Kornel Esti.&nbsp; Increasingly mortified by his alter ego&rsquo;s behavior, the friends part, only to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}