Writer Esterhazy, postmodern chronicler of Hungary, dies at 66

[WorldNews]

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Hungarian writer Peter Esterhazy, whose postmodern novels chronicled life under communism and its aftermath, died on Thursday aged 66, weeks after publishing a book about his pancreatic cancer. One of Central Europe's best known contemporary authors, Esterhazy came from what was once one of the continent's richest families whose wealth through the centuries sometimes exceeded that of the Austrian-Hungarian rulers. Composer Joseph Haydn was a conductor for an Esterhazy court orchestra in the 18th century and Peter's grandfather was prime minister of Hungary in 1917, but the Esterhazys lost their property and standing under communist rule.

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