Listed in Harold Bloom's 'The Western Canon', Jozsef is a major and highly-influential voice in 20th Century Hungarian poetry. This left-wing, schizophrenic poet, who published six books during his brief career, committed suicide at the age of thirty-two by throwing himself under a train. "Everything is old here. The ancient storm / leans on ...
October 23, 1956 For 12 days, countless Hungarian teenagers fought in the bloody Hungarian Revolution against Communist tyranny and overwhelming Soviet armor. They set up tank barricades, tossed Molotov cocktails, and with their confiscated Russian submachine guns made a stand on the streets of Budapest, hoping to hold out until help arrived from ...
(IN)VENTING BEING... "This volume is by far Mozsi's best. He goes beyond the cerebral by penetrating the instinctual that lurks in the rarified spaces of sound and sense. The best poems, it is said, are untranslatable. So it is with these poems of love and passion. Time and time again I had to abandon the task of the translator and join the author ...
Does the past decide the future? When East meets West, the clash determines whether Attila becomes the barbarian of history and religion or a hero who forges his own destiny. The love of a woman, a woman of his own choosing, can either destroy him and his family or make him a warrior that battles for his own heart.
"Sensitive and powerful, Peter Hargitai's novel "Millie" brims with passion and wit. Its hero, Art Nagy, is a Hungarian Alex Portnoy, forging anew an identity on the edge of two cultures."Millie" is destined to take a distinguished place on the shelf of world literature." -Lili Bita Author of "Sister of Darkness" "In this darkly comic novel ...
American Academy of Poets award-winning poet-translator Peter Hargitai considers the raging, aging child in this highly original collection of poems. His earlier work was listed in Yale critic Harold Bloom's prestigious
A socialist and, toward the end of his short life, a schizophrenic, Attila Jozsef is considered by many to have been the best Hungarian poet of the 20th century. This selection showcases his slightly unreal poems, which are studded with images of diamonds, trains, and glass and often preoccupied with frustrated love. This translation won the 1988 ...
An illustrated collection of thirteen fairy tales from Hungary, including "Sun, Moon, and Star," "The coat made of sheepskin," and "Ilona and Prince Argyelus."
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