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A blog on János Kodolányi’s novel I Am He

HI Csilla - am definitely interested in reading this, but am afraid that my Hungarian isn't what it should be - do you have a translation available in English? [...]

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Ervin Lázár is the creator of a genre we may safely call Central European folk surrealism, which takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration into that part of the soul where beauty, hope, and yearning live in close proximity with the harsh realities of life.

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Against what, if nothing is resisting?

Like many of Kertész’s works, The Pathseeker is not about the trauma of the Holocaust itself so much as the trauma of survival. The self may survive but the triumph of that survival is chimerical.

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"I wanted to tear those stereotypes apart"

"Eating disorders and the Soviet Union—maybe they seem like very different subjects, and first I was hesitating how it would work. But then I thought this was a way to get very different readers." - An interview with Finnish writer Sofi Oksanen.

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Sándor Tar: Gray Pigeon. Crime Novel (excerpt)

For a long time now Szabados wanted a bigger apartment so the children could have separate rooms, but he could never manage it, and now it was too late, he’ll just have to accept it. His dreams had come to naught. And so have lots of other things.

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Art and politics – part four

To sell ourselves to the Western media as political refugees would have been out of style. Therefore, we wore Russian military uniforms with our punk hairdos and talked about being highly trained KGB agents sent to the free world to destroy the morals of the Western youth.

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More on the Occupy Movement [N+1 Podcast]

The other day I discovered the N+1 podcast and expressed a public hope that they would dedicate a whole episode to discussing the Occupy Movement. (Again, [...]

Three Percent - Article

?I'm Over the Moon?

It takes guts to apostrophize a heavenly body. Everybody?s seen them: Sappho, Keats, Mayakovsky, O'Hara, you name it. After all these millions of years, what?s left [...]

The Paris Review

Elizabeth Bishop: Exchanging Hats

Gallery: Best known as a poet, Elizabeth Bishop was also a prolific painter. As a new book of her art is published, curator William Benton introduces [...]

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Arts & Letters Daily (03 Nov 2011)

My brain made me do it. Can neuroscience distinguish between an automatic impulse and a self-directed action? Mike Gazzaniga chooses to weigh the evidence... [...]

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20 éves az Írók Boltja

Önállóságának huszadik évfordulóját ünnepli kedden és szerdán a budapesti Írók Boltja. Az első nap, október 4-e a vásárlóké, október 5-én pedig koncert és az Üveggolyó-rend tagjainak felolvasása várja az érdeklődőket. A Litera a helyszínről tudósít.

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