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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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A la recherche de corps perdus

This novel is truly radical in its documentation of the fundamental shift in human consciousness that occurred (and is still occurring) at the onset of the new millennium with all that it implies: the collapse of Cold War dichotomies, the new challenges to Western civilization, the advent of cyberspace.

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"I make no distinction between translation and original work": interview with Clive Wilmer

Clive Wilmer is a much-respected poet and one of the best translators of Hungarian poetry into English. In his new collection he included no less than 36 of his translations from the Hungarian.

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Black Snowman: Gridlines (short story)

If one looked around, there were ten-storey apartment blocks stood everywhere, as far as the eye could see... For me, the whole of this scenery was at once familiar and reassuring. I had seen it continually since my childhood, an endless cross-hatching grid extending outwards in every direction...

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Football and literature 5.

"I married and divorced, but all the thoughts running through my head were: goal-kicking and Maria Schneider. I managed to trade off my small council apartment for a larger one through a fictitious contract, but all the while I was occupied with the thought of goal-kicking and Maria Schneider."

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Fantastic realism. Ervin Lázár: The Little Town of Miracles

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A la recherche de corps perdus

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"I make no distinction between translation and original work": interview with Clive Wilmer

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Black Snowman: Gridlines (short story)

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Football and literature 5.

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