“The political police reproduced and duplicated the acquired films, negatives, paper prints, and photographs from newspaper cuttings in various sizes, and compiled photo albums that they used to capture and identify the rebels. The photographs taken by Life’s photojournalists feature in several albums, including the parts of them that document
To transplant a juniper is a tricky business – often it perishes in the attempt’, considers the poet, enclosed by a little-world of enduring canopies brought forth from his own defiant planting. ‘That is why, perhaps, it was junipers I chose. That is why I contemplate the survivors – they
The reader takes in hand, with this book, a collection of poems as rich and diverse in theme as they are in form, poems which call to life a chorus of voices which at times seem strikingly familiar and at times are startlingly new. The English translations of poetry by
VOICES FLOAT FROM BOUGH TO BOUGH Hangok szállnak ágról ágra In memory of Petrarch (1304–1374) In the dark depths of the dream, a man’s voice wakes me, full and clear. Light glistens somewhere in the heights, as if on the arches of an inner courtyard. The voice is telling a
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“One of the recipients this March of Hungary’s highest award for contributions to the arts, the Kossuth Prize, was the writer Mátyás Sárközi. This was in recognition of his writings, including his depiction of Hungarian intellectual life in the first half of the 20th century through his family chronicles. The
Tibor Várady: Mi történt Écskán? [What Happened in Écska?]1 There is a story that could pass for a sort of erudite joke which yours truly has heard from his friend S. Z., a philosopher, collector of curiosities, and expert on so-called cultural memes (or genes, if you will) – a
In 2013 the new general director of the National Theatre in Budapest stepped onto the bridge of the flagship of Hungary’s theatre scene as an ethnic Hungarian from outside the country’s present-day borders. The journey of Attila Vidnyánszky, born into a family of teachers in the Subcarpathian region, Ukraine, in
War in Art After the declaration of war on Serbia, on 28 July 1914, many believed that the victorious troops would have returned home by the time leaves began to fall. This was never to happen. The leaves fell once, twice, and three times, but the war not only kept
Between St Isaac’s Cathedral and the Neva, stands St Petersburg’s most famous statue – “The Bronze Horseman”. It is a statue of Peter the Great on his horse trampling on a snake (representing Sweden, I am told). The horse rears up onto its hind legs and Peter’s right arm stretches
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