![]() ![]() At the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre, he meets other Hungarians but none as devastating as Klara, an older woman of the world who becomes his first lover and his obsession. Further threats to his future arrive via soon-to-be-canceled scholarships for Hungarian Jews, forcing Andras to find employment to continue his studies. Andras goes to tea to collect the box as well as a secret letter from the family matriarch, insisting he post it safely from Paris.ĭuring his long train journey across several frontiers, Andras notices the threatening presence of the German Nazis and refuses to buy anything in their country, even though he is starving. His last evening home is spent at the opera with his devoted brother, Tibor, where a bank manager’s wife asks him to take a box to her son, Josèf. Paris in 1937 is only a dream place for Hungarian Andras Levi, an aspiring architect, until news of a scholarship from the city’s École Spéciale reaches him. ![]()
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