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In the Art Context section, HLO presents a regularly updated selection of links to Hungarian art portals, thus providing a broader context to contemporary literature in the country. In this section, we also run articles dealing with movies, theatre, music and new media arts.

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Fantastic realism. Ervin Lázár: The Little Town of Miracles

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.

REVIEW

A continent locked in paper. Ilma Rakusa: More Sea (Mehr Meer)

Mehr Meer is a sort of mental map of Europe in the middle of the twentieth century, as seen by one person: Ilma Rakusa, the child of an Eastern European family wandering from country to country. And as such, it is highly subjective.

INTERVIEW

Wild young horses

A publisher of innovative and experimental work from the beginning, New Directions’s main aim today is to make the works of foreign writers known in the US. We talked to Barbara Epler, editor-in-chief of New Directions at the Budapest Book Festival.

WORKS

The French Prisoner (two poems)

"János Pilinszky is, for me, one of the great European poets of an extraordinary generation: that of Paul Celan, Zbigniew Herbert, and Yves Bonnefoy." (Clive Wilmer) – Two new translations by Clive Wilmer and George Gömöri.

ZOOM

Introduction to Hungarology

How is the homeland represented in the works of authors from different cultures: this was the question asked by the organizers of the 2009 PEN World Voices festival. Here is what László Garaczi had to say.

We read

Malcolm Cowley, Life Coach

In the fall of 1946, my grandfather was twenty years old and back home in Pittsburgh, having completed his English degree at Purdue and a tour with the navy. Though [...]

The Paris Review

"Most Beauteous Non-Prostitution Woman in Shortest

After a minor hiatus, Janis Stirna is back with his on-going [...]

Three Percent - Article

Fred Pearce's top 10 eco-books

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Arts & Letters Daily (16 May 2012)

Mexican food has become a better metaphor for America than the melting pot. Want Tater Tots in that burrito?.. more [...]

Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate

LITERA

A szerelmes García Lorca és a dühös orosz írók

Az eheti Külügyi ügyekből kiderül, hogy ki volt Federico García Lorca élete utolsó éveiben írt bús szonettjeinek a címzettje, és az is, hogy milyenek az orosz írók, ha nagyon nem tetszik nekik, amit a hatalom csinál.

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