“The RMDSZ (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania) is the oldest and largest minority party in the country, since its democratic chapter was established after the fall of Communism, and aside from minor gains from smaller challengers, mostly in the homogeneously Hungarian Székelyföld or Szeklerland, it was able to consolidate
The Budapest-based Hudec Cultural Foundation (HCF) was the initiator and organiser of the Art Deco Budapest Symposium taking place in January 2017. The Hudec Cultural Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Budapest. Activities focus on organising cultural and educational events based on the life and works of László Hudec,
[H]is reproachful eyes caressed and gnawed me from his portrait.(From Mandelshtam’s Voronezh Notebooks) For many years the existence of Osip Mandelshtam’s “Ode to Stalin” was in doubt. With the publication of Nadezhda Mandelshtam’s Hope Against Hope, this doubt was resolved and the “Ode” became better known, though often indirectly through
Once upon a time, beyond seventy-seven lands, even farther, beyond the Óperencia too, at the crumbling side of a ruined oven, in the seventy- seventh pleat of the skirt of an old woman there was a white flea, and right in the middle of it was a gleaming royal city,
I was thinking of the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited.– WALT WHITMAN 1. Balancing the wind gusts – the gold pointless, ground to powder – Here in heaven on the border of a field a meadow where the stones grow tracing fire. The arrival of three
Marina Tsvetaeva and The Poem of the Mountain Too much rubbish? Little sweeping? –Grieving mountains! Poets coupled by a single dash –suspended…over nothingness – the no one of our bodies.(Marina Tsvetaeva, An Attempt at a Room) “What is writing poetry but translating?” Tsvetaeva asked in a 1926 letter to Rilke. Is not it always a question
Was it for this…(Wordsworth, The Prelude) Hamlet: Give us the foils…King: Give them the foils…(Shakespeare, Hamlet) O joy! that in our embersIs something that doth live…… those obstinate questioningsOf sense and outward things,Fallings from us, vanishings;Blank misgivings of a CreatureMoving about in worlds not realized,High instincts, before which our mortal NatureDid
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