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…
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…
The latest addition to my website is Miklós Szentkuthy's Széljegyzetek Casanovához (Marginalia on Casanova). This is the first in series of ten novels (incomplete at the time of the author's…
The latest addition to my website is Magda Szabó's Katalin utca (Katalin Street). This is a new translation (September 2017) replacing the one from 2005. It tells the story of…
The latest addition to my website is Antal Szerb's VII. Olivér (Oliver VII). This is a light-hearted novel, set in the fictitious Southern European country of Alturia. The country is…
The latest addition to my website is Antal Szerb's A királyné nyaklánca (The Queen’s Necklace). According to Szerb's introduction to the book, this is not a novel but then, in…
The latest addition to my website is Antal Szerb's Utas és holdvilág (Journey by Moonlight). This is a wonderfully written book about a man, Mihály, who struggles to cope with…
The latest addition to my website is Antal Szerb's A Pendragon-legenda (The Pendragon Legend). Szerb's first novel is a wonderful romp, with a complicated plot involving a thirty-two year old…
I spent last week in Budapest but was somewhat disappointed with the literary offerings. I asked around and found only only literary house/museum - the Petőfi Literary Museum, devoted to…
The latest addition to my website is Terézia Mora's Das Ungeheuer [The Monster], winner of this year's German Book Prize. It follows on from Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent…