She Loves Me

In ninety-seven short chapters PÉter EsterhÁzy contemplates love and hate and sex and desire from the point of a view of a narrator who considers himself a great lover, a man who may (or may not) be in love with all the women in the world.

"With EsterhÁzy's novel Hungarian literature has gained a masterpiece-and has come of age at last." --PÉter NÁdas

"EsterhÁzy is the undisputed heavyweight champion of Hungarian letters. She Loves Me is his cleverest and yet most accessible book, an encyclopedia hidden in a love story." --Tibor Fischer, The Times

"It is one of EsterhÁzy's many ironic intimations in this erotic encyclopedia that love stories may have nothing in common, that there may be no such thing as a love story. There are just stories about the wayward things couples do together in the name of love." --New York Times Book Review