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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

God is telling me to shout

Similar to the character of Gyuri Köves in Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness, Gyuri Azarel is a young boy capable of intellectual observations far above what would normally be expected. Released from the rules and conventions that define an adult’s existence, a child can ask and say anything; in the case of Azarel, this results in a narrator who hides behind the mask of childhood in order to gain free expression.

INTERVIEW

"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.

WORKS

Morning Well (poems) II.

"We stand above the valley, mountainside – / Diminutive soothsayers who try to read / This huge, rock-callused palm." - More Norwegian poems by Roland Acsai.

ZOOM

Legendary Danube III: Ophélie

She’s not coming, the Buda camera said. She ought to be there, said the Pest end. Another tomfoolery of yours, said Buda. It’s not, honest! Like hell it isn’t, the Buda end fumed. Days and weeks went by but the girl never entered the eyes of the Buda camera.

We read

Upper West Side Story

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The Paris Review

Zoom, Rocket, Zoom! By Margaret Mayo - review

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On Edmund Burke

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Arts & Letters Daily

Goodbye Fergie 5: Decline and the Father

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George Szirtes

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Fantastic realism. Ervin Lázár: The Little Town of Miracles