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And then he proceeded to enumerate the obligations of the revolutionary, ever loyal to the working class, which coincided point by point with the behaviour ... »
Noémi Szécsi

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As for our facial expressions, be this ever so untypical of us Hungarians, we force them into a smile.
Pál Závada
Where we are is so horribly far away.
Lajos Parti Nagy
the slavery lies in freedom being this, / that not writing is, for some, such slavery / that they must write
Dezső Tandori
Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse – disguising, concealing, secreting, covering all that lies below the burning earth.
László Krasznahorkai
Everything you call transcendental and earthly is one and the same thing, existing together with you in a single time and single space.
László Krasznahorkai
Fortunately, only the sick and those with broken legs read the work of writers.
Gyula Krúdy
Even in its most threadbare of moments, the fabric of the law still binds the world.
Krisztina Tóth
...the angel is in the details.
György Petri
We need sacrifice in order to lose ourselves and find our identity.
Miklós Mészöly
The global economic crisis has a good effect on the health of the Hungarian writer. He writes less, because for what and for whom should he write, and anyway there is nowhere to write for, so he not only imagines a walk, and making love, but actually puts it into practice.
László Darvasi
We should not for a moment turn our back on the blazing sun, the present.
Miklós Mészöly
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Who is the poet whose last booklet of poems was found in a ditch in 1944 after he was murdered?

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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

Smell of hospitals, dawn, tiny nurses' room

In his review, Gergely Angyalosi claims that "[y]ou don't need to be exceptionally insightful to realize that those readers who are willing to immerse themselves in the world of Parti Nagy's most recent book should expect to experience a shift in their attitudes towards their mother tongue."

INTERVIEW

An interview with the translator of Tomas Tranströmer

In a 2001 interview, Ferenc Mervel talked about Tomas Tranströmer's poetry, its poetic, musical and psychological inspirations and the Swedish poet's friendship with János Pilinszky.

WORKS

Poem of the month - János Pilinszky: The French Prisoner (1947)

In 1944 Pilinszky was called up to the Hungarian army and soon afterwards evacuated with his unit to Germany. He never saw action, but in a Germany on the verge of defeat he witnessed apocalyptic scenes. "The French Prisoner" is a testimony to those experiences. - George Gömöri's and Clive Wilmer's choice.

ZOOM

Earlobe, or the millstones of ideology

Today in Hungary any intellectual who feels responsible for the community and tries to mediate, faces serious difficulties. If someone wants to write about public issues and social questions, independently and in an unbiased way, they could easily be forced into a strict dichotomy and mindless political logic. A kind of courage is needed, therefore, in order to speak up, because each word could touch a nerve.

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