ON THE TRANSLATIONS OF FERENC RÁKÓCZI II’S CONFESSIO PECCATORIS AND MEMOIRS* Bernard Adams’ English translation of Ferenc Rákóczi II’s two major literary works definitely fills a niche in research on 18th-century Central European literature as this is the first time that Rákóczi’s Confessio peccatoris and Memoirs (Mémoires) have become accessible
Yoram Hazony’s book1 has found many sympathetic readers – myself among them – and has been deservedly praised by reviewers. I have a personal reason to think highly of the book. Over the last decades, we have been living in Europe in the grips of a political orthodoxy that brooks
Geopolitics and global commerce, otherwise referred to simply as “flag and trade” – these are what shape the world. The flag is in fact the sovereign state, the political power and military force that is mustered behind it, and which it embodies; this is why the term flag refers both
POST-1956 TRANSITION Just as the 1956 uprising demonstrated the emptiness of the Party’s pretentions to represent the working class, so too did those brief days of liberation, and the slight lessening of control that preceded them, expose the shallow depth of support within the Churches for their leaders’ collaboration. As
INTRODUCTION “In the year 1188 [actually 1187] from the incarnation of our Lord, Urban the Third being the head of the Apostolic See; Frederick Emperor of Germany and King of the Romans; Isaac Emperor of Constantinople; Philip the son of Lewis reigning in France; Henry the Second in England; William
A Reckoning of accounts* Thoughts on Péter Ákos Bod’s Book Péter Ákos Bod is undoubtedly one of the most diligent economists working in Hungary today. During a career of more than four decades to date, not once has he missed an opportunity – or the self-imposed duty – to share his thoughts, feelings, observations and suggestions
“The cage of the visible”: György Spiró’s Captivity* Captivity’s captive is the son of a Jewish silk-importer in first-century Rome, and a freeborn Roman citizen. A petty bourgeois, in effect. His civil name is Gaius Theodorus, but he is known to intimates – and to us – by the Hebrew name
I first met Tamás (or Thomas, as he is known in English) Kabdebó some time in 2006. At the suggestion of the outstanding radio reporter, Éva Filippinyi – who also departed this life, some two years ago now –, I went to see him, when I was still a writer
I first heard a poem by Robert Conquest when I was thirteen years old and an English master at my secondary school read out the “Excerpt of a Report to the Galactic Council”. It was rather an interesting science fiction type of poem. So I knew him as a poet
Part I* The Prague Spring is widely considered to have begun in the deep of winter, 5 January 1968, when the Central Committee of the Komunistická strana Československá (KSČ – Communist Party of Czechoslovakia) removed Antonín Novotný from the First Secretary post he had held on to for fifteen years
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