2011-05-29 08:55
In 1977, two years after the original release of Fateless, Imre Kertész learned from one of his acquaintances that a review of his book was published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Soon, Kertész sent a letter to the author of the review, the Swiss literateur of Hungarian origin, Eva...
2011-05-18 21:54
Just like all eras, today has its own mythology. In today's vulgar myth-creation, popular writers and movie stars take the place of ancient heroes, and ancestral legends are replaced by trivial stories and trendy clichés of pop culture. Mythological consciousness doesn't get...
2011-05-13 23:29
It would be definitely difficult to read the works of Péter Esterházy without knowing the Péter Esterházy phenomena. In his latest work our author attempts to rewrite, i.e. to continue the Kornél Esti short stories of Kosztolányi. But once being more or...
2011-05-04 19:27
I came across the newly published conversation book by Attila Bartis and István Kemény on a sunny afternoon in autumn. The first thing I felt was disappointment because it seemed that two of the three conversations in the book have already been published on litera.hu. I cursed the...
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