New Hungarian Quarterly
As has been mentioned elsewhere, the new issue of the Hungarian Quarterly is now available. (Some pieces are available online, but in most instances, there’s just a sample.) There are quite a few interesting pieces, including an interview with Magda Szab籀 (whose most famous novel—The Door appears to be ...
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Sunflower event in NYC
Sara, at NYRB’s weblog, is inviting you to their ‘launch’ event for Sunflower. If you’re in NYC tomorrow you should go check it out. The Hungarian Cultural Center presents John Lukacs in conversation with John B獺tki. They will be discussing Gy繳la Kr繳dy’s Sunflower. This fantasia of a book ...
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LA Times on Sunflower
The LA Times has a review, which we overlooked these many weeks, of Gyula Kr繳dy’s Sunflowers, out now from the consistently incredible New York Review Books. It sounds fantastic. Here, for example, is one of his translators, the usually sober-minded poet George Szirtes, describing Kr繳dy’s Sindbad stories ...
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