De lettres en coups de téléphones, Le chat et la souris met en scene, dans des situations absurdes, des personnes âgées que l'amour rend aussi risibles qu'attendrissantes.
Die "Minutennovellen", deren Humor und Rätselhaftigkeit an Kafka erinnern, gehören längst zu den Klassikern der osteuropäischen Moderne. In wenigen Zeilen die Essenz eines Lebens, in einem simplen Dialog die Absurdität einer Epoche festzuhalten - das ist
Ishtvan Erken - klassik vengerskoj literatury XX veka. On neodnokratno povtorjal, chto vazhnejshim sobytiem, povlijavshim na formirovanie ego mirovozzrenija, na otnoshenie k zhizni i k ljudjam, byla vojna.
The Flower Show and The Toth Family, two novellas in one volume by István Örkény (1912-79), introduce to an English-speaking audience a Hungarian writer with a keen sense of the absurdities of modern life.
Die Jungs heißen Gabor, Attila, Medve, Benedek, Orban oder Pal, sind zehn Jahre alt, kommen meist aus wohlhabenden ungarischen Familien und erleben die ersten Wochen in der Kadettenschule in Kőszeg.
How has Hungary, a country once in the vanguard of political and economic reform under Communism, become a chilling example of the new threats confronting democracy in Central Europe?
György Petri (1943-2000) belonged to the generation of Hungarian poets who grew up after the uprising of 1956. He made his name in the West as the most uncompromising and outrageous of his country's dissident authors.
Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944), whose work beautifully combines colloquial modernism with Virgilian classicism, is best known internationally as one of the great poets of the Holocaust.
THE AUTHOR of this book (1907-1944) was perhaps the greatest poet of the Holocaust, a Jewish Catholic convert who fell victim to a mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the regular Hungarian Army under standard orders.