Category: Arts and Literature

CHARON’S FERRY

A Selection of Poems by Gyula Illyés, Translated by Bruce Berlind The gardens are afloat in water, the small village a peninsula now. And the deluge increases. We’ve done what it’s possible for man to do. It’s black as pitch outside, not a star shines through. Whatever’s to be done

NEW BOOKS IN HUNGARIAN

Gergely Romsics: Nép, nemzet, birodalom. A Habsburg Birodalom emlékezete a német, osztrák és magyar történetpolitikai gondolkodásban 1918–1941 (People, Nation, Empire. The Memory of the Habsburg Empire in German, Austrian, and Hungarian Historiography and Political Thinking, 1918–1941).Budapest, Új Mandátum, 2010. 465 pp. (Habsburg Historical Monographs, 9.)ISBN 978-963-276-040-7 Almost immediately after the fall of