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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.

REVIEW

Speaking between two silences

In this poetic oeuvre, language is not a tool of communication but instead, its direct hindrance. “I’m bigger than any sentence, / smaller than silence” – says the narrator of one of the poems.

INTERVIEW

The conflict between right and right

"Curiosity in my view is a moral virtue, a curious person is a better person than those who are not curious." – Dóra Szekeres talked to Amos Oz, the Guest of Honour of this year's Budapest Book Festival.

WORKS

Hanele (excerpt)

"If this was her fate, why rebel? It couldn’t get any better, only worse" – an excerpt from Hanele, a short novel about an ugly, miserable Jewish orphan girl in a pre-World War II shtetl. The book, rich in ethnographic detail and betraying strong empathy for the outcast, was written by the polymath writer and composer György Láng.

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Teenagers in focus – classic/popular Shakespeare?

Shakespeare is an appealing cultural commodity in present-day Hungary. Even today, however, teenagers mostly face an archival and canonical view of Shakespeare’s plays, though there has been a shift towards a more up-to-date appreciation.

We read

Lionel Shriver: 'Almost no one has a normal relati

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On Napoleon Chagnon

Fighting and fieldwork. Anthropology, driven by governments and geneticists, has become a battle royal. At the center is Napoleon Chagnon… more? [...]

Arts & Letters Daily

A Visit with Patrick Leigh Fermor: Part 1

Patrick Leigh Fermor, center, with members of the General Heinrich Kreipe Abduction Team: Georgios Tyrakis, William Stanley Moss, Emmanouil Paterakis, and Antonios [...]

The Paris Review

Goodbye Fergie 4:The fifth, sixth, seventh and eig

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George Szirtes

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