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ALSO BY SÁNDOR MÁRAI
Esther’s InheritanceEmbersCasanova in BolzanoThe Rebels
This Is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf
Translation copyright © 2011 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved.Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Previous editions of this work were published in different forms; in Hungary as Az igazi by Révai, Budapest, in 1941; in Germany as Wandlungen Einer Ehe by J. P. Toth, Hamburg, in 1949; and in Germany as Judit … Es Az Utohang by Uivary Griff, München, in 1980. This edition was originally published in Hungary as Az igazi. Judit … és az utóhang by Helikon Kiado, Budapest, in 2003. Copyright © by Heirs of Sándor Márai, Csaba Gaal, Toronto.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataMárai, Sándor, 1900–1989.
[Igazi. English]Portraits of a marriage / by Sándor Márai; translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes. — 1st American ed.p. cm.eISBN: 978-0-307-59538-61. Marriage—Fiction. 2. Married people—Fiction. 3. Spouses—Fiction. 4. Mistresses—Fiction. 5. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction. I. Szirtes, George, 1948– II. Title.PH3281.M351413 2011894′.511334—dc22            2010034251
Jacked design by Peter Mendelsund
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Contents
Cover
Also by Sándor Márai
Title Page
Copyright
Part I
Part II
Part III
Epilogue
A Note About the Author
A Note About the Translator
Part I
Look, see that man? Wait! turn your head away, look at me, keep talking. I wouldn’t like it if he glanced this way and spotted me; I don’t want him to greet us. Now you can look again … The little squat one there in the fur-collared coat? No, of course not. It’s the tall, pale-faced one in the black overcoat talking to that blond stick of a girl behind the counter. He is just having some candied orange peel wrapped. Strange, he never bought me candied orange peel.
What’s that, dear? … Nothing. Wait, I have to blow my nose.
Has he gone? Tell me when he has gone.
He’s paying now? … Can you see what his wallet looks like? Describe it carefully; I don’t want to look that way. Is it brown crocodile skin? Yes? Oh, I’m so pleased.
Why am I pleased? Just because. Well, yes, of course, I gave him the wallet, for his birthday. Ten years ago. Was I in love with him? … That’s a hard question, dear. Yes, I believe I did ............

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