Sándor Márai: Eszter hagyatéka (Esther’s Inheritance)
The latest addition to my website is Sándor Márai's Eszter hagyatéka (Esther’s Inheritance). Esther is in her late forties and lives alone with an elderly aunt. She has only ever…
Sándor Márai: A zendülők (The Rebels)
The latest addition to my website is Sándor Márai's A zendülők (The Rebels). The book is set in May 1918. Four young men have just finished school and are waiting…
Sándor Márai: Bebi, vagy az elsö szerelem [Bebi or First Love]
The latest addition to my website is Sándor Márai's Bebi, vagy az elsö szerelem [Bebi or First Love]. the novel recounts the story of Gaspar, a fifty-four year old Latin…
Sándor Márai: A gyertyák csonkig égnek (Embers)
The latest addition to my website is Sándor Mára's A gyertyák csonkig égnek (Embers). Hendrik is a seventy-five year old general, living alone, with his servants, in his castle in…
Janos Szekely: Kísértés (Temptation)
The latest addition to my website is Janos Szekely's Kísértés (Temptation). This is a sad tale of Béla, a Hungarian born out of wedlock in the early 1920s - his…
Magda Szabó: Abigél (Abigail)
The latest addition to my website is Magda Szabó's Abigél (Abigail). This first appeared in Hungary fifty years ago where it has been Szabó's most popular novel. It is set…
Miklós Szentkuthy: Barokk Róbert [Robert Baroque]
The latest addition to my website is Miklós Szentkuthy's Barokk Róbert [Robert Baroque]. Though only published three years after his death, this is an early work, written when he was…
Miklós Szentkuthy: Europa Minor
The latest addition to my website is Miklós Szentkuthy's Europa Minor, the fourth book in Szentkuthy’s Saint Orpheus’s Breviary series. This is the last of the series translated into French,…
Miklós Szentkuthy: Eszkoriál [Escorial]
The latest addition to my website is Miklós Szentkuthy's Eszkoriál [Escorial]. This book follows the life of Francis Borgia, descendant of those Borgias, later Director-General of the Society of Jesus…
Miklós Szentkuthy: Fekete Reneszánsz (Black Renaissance)
The latest addition to my website is Miklós Szentkuthy's Fekete Reneszánsz (Black Renaissance). This is the second in his St Orpheus Breviary series. It has not yet been translated into…