Harmonia Caelestis

"Harmonia Cælestis" is Péter Esterházy's literary chronicle of his family, which has long been regarded as the epitome of splendor and glory. Book I, "Numbered Sentences from the Life of the Esterházy Family," offers a baroque cornucopia of legends, anecdotes, and episodes known only to one main character: the father. He is Don Juan and good-for-nothing, magnate and scholar, madman and tyrant - a passepartout for everything, boundless and inexhaustible like the family's power throughout history. "The Confessions of the Esterházy Family" (Book II) recounts the life of an aristocratic family under the conditions of dictatorship, including expropriation, relocation, and impoverishment. Between these two poles, the Everything and the Nothing, this subversive opus magnum unfolds.