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"A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel. Abject poverty is an unusual subject for the novel, but it is at the center of John Szekely's Dickensian tale of a young man coming of age in Budapest between the wars. Illegitimate and unwanted, Bela is no sooner born than his mother packs him off to the country to be looked after by a peasant woman; when she stops paying her son's keep, he is systematically starved, as well as ostracized, bullied, and kept out of school. He does his best to hold his own, but it is years before his mother comes for him and brings him back to live with her in the city. There she remains in thrall of his feckless father, Mishka, who comes and goes until at last, once and for all, he is gone, even as she works her fingers to the bone and leaves Bela to share his room with a hardworking prostitute. Living in a crowded tenement, whose various inhabitants Szekely depicts with relish, Bela secures a job in a fancy hotel and scrapes up the money to put a down payment on a uniform. He must rise well before dawn to get to work and work until the early hours, which leave him as exhausted as he is famished, even as he is fascinated by the world of the uppercrust that his new job exposes him to; soon he is embroiled with a rich, damaged, and dangerous woman. The atmosphere of Budapest is increasingly poisoned by the appeal of fascism, while Bela grows ever more aware of how power and money keep down the working classes. In the end, with every odd still against him, he musters the resolve to set sail for new future. Temptation is a wonderfully vivid and utterly captivating rediscovered masterwork of twentieth-century fiction"--… (meer)
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BELA, NIÑO HÚNGARO, HIJO NATURAL DE MADRE SOLTERA, ES CRIADO POR UNA VIEJA PROSTITUTA HASTA LOS 14 AÑOS. SOBREVIVE COMO PUEDE PASANDO AUTÉNTICA HAMBRE, SU MADRE QUE PRACTICAMENTE NO LE HA VISITADO EN ESE TIEMPO, LE TIENE QUE RECOGER Y LLEVÁRSELO A BUDAPEST, DONDE MALVIVE COMO LAVANDERA, COLOCA AL NIÑO DE BOTONES (SIN SUELDO) EN UN MOTEL DE LUJO. AMBOS SOBREVIVEN MUY DURAMENTE, APARECE EL PADRE Y, AUNQUE DE MOMENTO SUS PROBLEMAS MEJORAN, NO SUCEDE ASÍ. LA ACCIÓN ESTÁ SITUADA ENTREGUERRAS, CUANDO EL NAZISMO COMIENZA. ( )
  Elenagdd | Apr 17, 2019 |
Hard times, vita dura. Dalle stalle alle stelle, infanzia in povertà in un istituto... cose un po' già lette, ok. MA c'è quel tocco di simpatica ironia (ho adorato lo scoiattolo sbeffeggiatore che viene evocato di tanto in tanto nella prima parte del libro, super) e il meccanismo funziona, fa presa e allora ti fa piacere rileggere di un'infanzia senza scarpe quando l'inverno era davvero freddo, della fame, della fatica ecc. ecc. anche se ti ricorda altri libri che hai letto.
In più c'è, senza pedanteria o excursus pesanti eh?, anche un'infarinatura di storia ungherese, di cui noi occidentali non sappiamo poi molto [e gli italiani potrebbero trovare inquietanti analogie tra l'Ungheria anni Trenta di Horthy e l'Italia anni Zero di Berlu, compresa la tentazione del titolo, quella del pragmatismo che ti inviterebbe ad accettare la vita così com'è senza badare troppo agli ideali e a come dovrebbe o potrebbe essere...]
Aggiungeteci un pizzico di sentimentalismo e allora potrete capirmi se vi dico che sono molto contento di aver preso in mano questo libro e di averlo letto in questo inizio di dicembre.
Se Szekely vi ha stuzzicato leggetelo, non vi dispiacerà ;-) CREDO :-P ( )
  downisthenewup | Aug 17, 2017 |
Más de 700 páginas son demasiadas. ( )
  cuentosalgernon | Aug 20, 2013 |
Mi vida empezó como una novela negra. Intentaron asesinarme. Por suerte todo sucedió cinco meses antes de que yo naciera, así que no creo que la cosa me causara mayor sobresalto...

Esta voz juguetona que nos sorprende desde las primeras líneas de Tentación pertenece a Béla, su protagonista, un chiquillo que a punto estuvo de no nacer, y que finalmente vino al mundo en la primavera de 1913 en una aldea de la campiña húngara, un lugar donde el hambre era el castigo de cada día. Su madre, una joven campesina, al nacer lo dejó en casa de una vieja arpía y fue su maestro quien le regaló los primeros libros, le hizo caer en la tentación del saber y le contó que más allá del pueblo había una ciudad mágica que se llamaba Budapest. Una vez llegado a la capital y empleado como botones en un gran hotel, durante el día Béla asiste al espectáculo de despilfarro de las clases acomodadas, dispuestas a ahogar su aburrimiento en champaña y caviar,y por la noche vuelve a la periferia para compartir con los suyos las miserias del proletariado. En la ciudad empieza también su despertar sexual a manos de una pelirroja perversa, rica y hermosa, y su coqueteo con la política de los años veinte. En los tres años detrabajo en el hotel, el joven Béla experimenta el límite del hambre y del agotamiento sexual, descubriendo lo mejor y lo peor de la sociedad que le rodea; en resumidas cuentas, juega con el destino poniendo sobre la mesa un deseo inmenso de vivir y gana su primera partida recién cumplidos los dieciocho años.
Novela veladamente autobiográfica, Tentación es uno de los grandes textos del siglo XX, pues su autor condensó en estas páginas todo el talento, el humor corrosivo y la ironía que distinguen a los buenos perdedores. Si Dickens y Thackeray vivieran, posiblemente aplaudirían a este admirable alumno, que aprendió de los grandes maestros ingleses el arte de contar una historia que era su misma vida.
  LilianaL | Aug 29, 2010 |
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"A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel. Abject poverty is an unusual subject for the novel, but it is at the center of John Szekely's Dickensian tale of a young man coming of age in Budapest between the wars. Illegitimate and unwanted, Bela is no sooner born than his mother packs him off to the country to be looked after by a peasant woman; when she stops paying her son's keep, he is systematically starved, as well as ostracized, bullied, and kept out of school. He does his best to hold his own, but it is years before his mother comes for him and brings him back to live with her in the city. There she remains in thrall of his feckless father, Mishka, who comes and goes until at last, once and for all, he is gone, even as she works her fingers to the bone and leaves Bela to share his room with a hardworking prostitute. Living in a crowded tenement, whose various inhabitants Szekely depicts with relish, Bela secures a job in a fancy hotel and scrapes up the money to put a down payment on a uniform. He must rise well before dawn to get to work and work until the early hours, which leave him as exhausted as he is famished, even as he is fascinated by the world of the uppercrust that his new job exposes him to; soon he is embroiled with a rich, damaged, and dangerous woman. The atmosphere of Budapest is increasingly poisoned by the appeal of fascism, while Bela grows ever more aware of how power and money keep down the working classes. In the end, with every odd still against him, he musters the resolve to set sail for new future. Temptation is a wonderfully vivid and utterly captivating rediscovered masterwork of twentieth-century fiction"--

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